melittid

plural melittids

1. biologyAny bee of the family Melittidae.

   Regarding the transport sites, apids, melittids, ctenoplectrids, and megachilids all show little variation whereas the other bee families display wide variation.

   1992, David W. Roubik, editor, Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Bees, page 45

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   In further support of the antiquity of this clade is the widely disjunct distribution of some of its basal members among the dasypodaine melittids, as indicated in Sections 26 and 68 and Michener (1981a).

   2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World, volume 1, page 95

   The relatively good fossil representation of melittids and their long-tongued associates has been argued to be a reflection of a bias in favour of resin-collecting bees.

   2010, Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: A Plant and Pollination Miscellany, page 105