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Colletidae
Colletidae
Translingual
Proper noun
Colletidae
- A taxonomic family within the superfamily Apoidea – some solitary bees, including masked bees, miner bees, plasterer bees and yellow-faced bees.
Hypernyms
- (family): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder; Apoidea - superfamily
Hyponyms
- (family): Callomelittinae, Colletinae, Diphaglossinae, Hylaeinae, Paracolletinae, Scraptrinae, Stenotritinae (subfamilies)