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Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ-ENT)

This collection is a snapshot of an external collection database where only the Bee (Apoidea:Anthophila) records are included.

Contacts: Naomi Pierce, npierce@oeb.harvard.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3366-1625)
Collection Manager: Crystal Maier, cmaier@fas.harvard.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0001-6435-2775)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Collection Statistics
  • 22,020 specimen records
  • 21,099 (96%) georeferenced
  • 11,595 (53%) with images (18,394 total images)
  • 16,133 (73%) identified to species
  • 7 families
  • 130 genera
  • 1,029 species
  • 1,084 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acamptopoeum (36)
  • Andrena (5778)
  • Anthrenoides (174)
  • Calliopsini (2)
  • Calliopsis (431)
  • Callonychium (4)
  • Epimethea (1)
  • Eucara (1)
  • Euherbstia (1)
  • Hypomacrotera (1)
  • Liphanthus (169)
  • Macrotera (4)
  • Melitturga (2)
  • Mesoxaea (4)
  • Nomadopsis (1)
  • Oxaea (7)
  • Oxaeinae (23)
  • Panurginae (239)
  • Panurginus (71)
  • Panurgus (43)
  • Parapsaenythia (11)
  • Perdita (1308)
  • Protandrena (23)
  • Protoxaea (40)
  • Psaenythia (18)
  • Pseudopanurgus (347)
  • Pseudosarus (15)
  • Rhophitulus (49)
  • Spinoliella (15)