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Scissor Bees
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Scissor Bees

Chelostoma

Chelostoma is a genus of bees in the Osmiini tribe of the family Megachilidae. The genus is divided into 5 subgenera with 56 described species.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Chelostoma

subgenusChelostoma

Gyrodromella

subgenusGyrodromella

Prochelostoma

subgenusProchelostoma

Foveosmia

subgenusFoveosmia

Neochelostoma

subgenusNeochelostoma

Eochelostoma

subgenusEochelostoma

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 252470.