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GENUS EUCERA

Author: Scopoli 1770

Type species: Apis longicornis Linnaeus, 1758, by designation of Latreille, 1810: 439.
Subgenera: Eucera s.str.; Synhalonia; Tetralonia.
Synonyms: Macrocera Latreille 1810 (not Meigen 1803); Xenoglossodes; Melissina.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Apidae
Subfamily: Eucerinae
Tribe: Eucerini
Estimated min and max body length from the genus.
Countries with known records of the genus (based on Nieto et al. 2014)
Estimated difficulty to accurately identify a specimen as belonging to this genus.
Distinctive traits
  • Males with very long antennae
  • Females with basitibial plate
  • Elevated clypeus
  • Long mouthparts
  • Submarginal cells of different sizes when 3 submarginal cells
Pictures of distinctive traits
Morphologically close genera and how to distinguish them:
  • Eucera - Anthophora, Amegilla & Habropoda
Eucera species have different-size submarginal cells
Anthophora, Amegilla & Habropoda species have submarginal cells off equivalent sizes
General comments on Eucera species identification
Since Dorchin (2018), Eucera now comprises every species of Eucerini in Europe, and is subdivided in three subgenera: Eucera s.str (2 submarginal cells), Synhalonia and Tetralonia.
Currently, Eucera species are amongst the most difficult bees to identify in Europe. In absence of a revision of the european species, we lack proper criteria for species identification, and putting a species name on specimens without having proper reference specimens compared to type specimens is hazardous. Unless you are in areas with very few species, an expert's eye will be required to sort out the specimens.
SPECIES IDENTIFICATION TOOL
Sorry, but the species identification tool is not yet available for Eucera. 
Please check the reference(s) at the bottom of the page for traditional keys.

 List of the 119 Eucera species found in Europe (IUCN 2014 + Rasmont et al 2017):
Eucera (Eucera) albofasciata Friese, 1895
Eucera (Eucera) algira Brullé, 1840
Eucera (Eucera) barbiventris Pérez, 1902
Eucera (Eucera) bidentata Pérez, 1887
Eucera (Eucera) caerulescens Friese, 1899
Eucera (Eucera) caspica Morawitz, 1873
Eucera (Eucera) chrysopyga Pérez, 1879
Eucera (Eucera) cineraria Eversmann, 1852
Eucera (Eucera) clypeata Erichson, 1835
Eucera (Eucera) codinai Dusmet y Alonso, 1926
Eucera (Eucera) collaris Dours, 1873
Eucera (Eucera) curvitarsis Mocsáry, 1879
Eucera (Eucera) cypria Alfken, 1933
Eucera (Eucera) dalmatica Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) decolorata Gribodo, 1924
Eucera (Eucera) digitata Friese, 1896
Eucera (Eucera) dimidiata Brullé, 1832
Eucera (Eucera) ebmeri Risch, 1999
Eucera (Eucera) elongatula Vachal, 1907
Eucera (Eucera) eucnemidea Dours, 1873
Eucera (Eucera) excisa Mocsáry, 1879
Eucera (Eucera) fasciata Risch, 1999
Eucera (Eucera) flavicornis Risch, 2003
Eucera (Eucera) furfurea Vachal, 1907
Eucera (Eucera) gaullei Vachal, 1907
Eucera (Eucera) gracilipes Pérez, 1895
Eucera (Eucera) graeca Radoszkowski, 1876
Eucera (Eucera) helvola Klug, 1845
Eucera (Eucera) hispaliensis Pérez, 1902
Eucera (Eucera) hispana Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) interrupta Bär, 1850
Eucera (Eucera) kullenbergi Tkalců, 1978
Eucera (Eucera) laxiscopa Alfken, 1935
Eucera (Eucera) longicornis (L., 1758)
Eucera (Eucera) matalae Tkalců, 2003
Eucera (Eucera) maxima Tkalců, 1987
Eucera (Eucera) microsoma Cockerell, 1922
Eucera (Eucera) morio (Friese, 1911)
Eucera (Eucera) nigrescens Pérez, 1879
Eucera (Eucera) nigrilabris Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) nigrifacies Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) nigripes Klug, 1845
Eucera (Eucera) notata Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) numida Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) obliterata Pérez, 1896
Eucera (Eucera) obsoleta Pérez, 1911
Eucera (Eucera) oraniensis Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) palestinae Friese, 1922
Eucera (Eucera) pannonica Mocsáry, 1878
Eucera (Eucera) paraclypeata Sitdikov, 1988
Eucera (Eucera) parnassia Pérez, 1902
Eucera (Eucera) parvicornis Mocsary, 1878
Eucera (Eucera) penicillata Risch, 1997
Eucera (Eucera) proxima Morawitz, 1875
Eucera (Eucera) pseudeucnemidea Risch, 1997
Eucera (Eucera) punctulata Alfken, 1942
Eucera (Eucera) puncticollis Morawitz, 1876
Eucera (Eucera) pythagoras Risch, 2003
Eucera (Eucera) rufipes Smith, 1879
Eucera (Eucera) seminuda Brullé, 1832
Eucera (Eucera) sogdiana Morawitz, 1875
Eucera (Eucera) squamosa Lepeletier, 1841
Eucera (Eucera) syriaca Dalla Torre, 1896
Eucera (Eucera) taurica Morawitz, 1871
Eucera (Eucera) vittulata Noskiewicz, 1934
Eucera (Eucera) vulpes Brullé, 1832



Eucera (Synhalonia) alternans
(Brullé, 1832)
Eucera (Synhalonia) brachycera (Gribodo, 1893)
Eucera (Synhalonia) commixta Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895
Eucera (Synhalonia) cressa (Tkalců, 1984)
Eucera (Synhalonia) distinguenda (Morawitz, 1875)
Eucera (Synhalonia) fedtschenkoi (Dalla Torre, 1896)
Eucera (Synhalonia) hungarica Friese, 1896
Eucera (Synhalonia) lanuginosa Klug, 1845
Eucera (Synhalonia) lucasi (Gribodo, 1893)
Eucera (Synhalonia) maroccana (Dusmet y Alonso, 1928)
Eucera (Synhalonia) mastrucata (Morawitz, 1875)
Eucera (Synhalonia) mediterranea Friese, 1896
Eucera (Synhalonia) plumigera (Kohl, 1905)
Eucera (Synhalonia) pollinaris (Kirby, 1802)
Eucera (Synhalonia) quilisi (Dusmet y Alonso, 1926)
Eucera (Synhalonia) radoszkovskii (Morawitz, 1872)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) rufa (Lepeletier, 1841)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) spectabilis (Morawitz, 1875)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) transitoria (Morawitz, 1875)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) tricincta Erichson, 1835  
Eucera (Synhalonia) velutina (Morawitz, 1873)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) vernalis (Morawitz, 1875)  
Eucera (Synhalonia) zeta Dalla Torre, 1896
Eucera (Tetralonia) pollinosa (Lepeletier, 1841)
Eucera (Tetralonia) ruficornis (Fabricius, 1804)
Eucera (Tetralonia) salicariae (Lepeletier, 1841)
Eucera (Tetralonia) scabiosae (Mocsáry, 1881)
Eucera (Tetralonia) strigata (Lepeletier, 1841)
Eucera (Tetralonia) vicina Morawitz, 1876
Eucera (Tetralonia) alticincta (Lepeletier, 1841)
Eucera (Tetralonia) cinctella (Saunders, 1908)
Eucera (Tetralonia) dentata (Germar, 1839)
Eucera (Tetralonia) fulvescens (Giraud, 1863)
Eucera (Tetralonia) glauca (Fabricius, 1775)
Eucera (Tetralonia) graja (Eversmann, 1852)
Eucera (Tetralonia) hohmanni (Tkalců, 1993)
Eucera (Tetralonia) iberica Dusmet y Alonso, 1926
Eucera (Tetralonia) inulae (Tkalců, 1979)
Eucera (Tetralonia) julliani (Pérez, 1879)
Eucera (Tetralonia) lanzarotensis (Tkalců, 1993)
Eucera (Tetralonia) lyncea (Mocsáry, 1879)
Eucera (Tetralonia) malvae (Rossi, 1790)
Eucera (Tetralonia) nana (Morawitz, 1874)
References with identification keys for some of the species:
  • Osytshnjuk, A.Z., Panfilov, D.V. & Ponomareva A.A. (1978) Superfamily Apoidea. In: Tobias, V.I. (Ed). Key to the insects of European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Pt. 1. Nauka, Leningrad, 279-519. (In Russian)
  • Amiet, F., Herrmann, M., Müller, A. and Neumeyer, R., 2007. Apidae 5: Ammobates, Ammobatoides, Anthophora, Biastes, Ceratina, Dasypoda, Epeoloides, Epeolus, Eucera, Macropis, Melecta, Melitta, Nomada, Pasites, Tetralonia, Thyreus, Xylocopa (Vol. 5). Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune
  • Falk, S.J., 2015. Field guide to the bees of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing
Online resources:
Atlas hymenoptera (Belgium)
BWARS (UK)
Discover Life (World)
WestPalBees (West Palearctic)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2019)

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References used to write this page:
  • Bossert, S., E. Murray, E.A.B. Almeida, S. Brady, B. Blaimer, B.N. Danforth (2018). Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130 (2019): 121–131
  • Dorchin, A., López-Uribe, M. M., Praz, C. J., Griswold, T., & Danforth, B. N. 2018. Phylogeny, new generic-level classification, and historical biogeography of the Eucera complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 119, 81-92.
  • Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World, 2nd Edition. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Michez D., Rasmont P., Terzo, M., Vereecken, N. 2019. Abeilles d'Europes. Hymenoptères d'Europes, Volume 1. N.A.P. Editions.
  • Nieto, A., Roberts, S. P., Kemp, J., Rasmont, P., Kuhlmann, M., García Criado, M., ... & Michez, D. 2014. European red list of bees. Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union, 98. (IUCN 2014)
  •  Rasmont, P., Devalez, Jelle, Pauly, A., Michez, D. & Radchenko, V.G. 2017. Addition to the checklist of IUCN European wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 53: 17-32.

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