Author: Cockerell 1919

Type species: Nomia diversipes Latreille, 1806, by original designation.
Synonyms: Nomiapis is considered a subgenus of Pseudapis Kirby 1900 by some authors.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Halictidae
Subfamily: Nomiinae
Tribe: Nomiini
Distinctive traits
  • Enlarged tegulae
  • Terga with basal bands
Pictures of distinctive traits.
Morphologically close genera and how to distinguish them
No other genus in Europe has tegulae so long that they reach clearly beyond the posterior margin of the mesonotum.
General comments on Nomiapis species identification
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Please check the reference(s) below for traditional keys.
List of the 9 Nomiapis species found in Europe (Ghisbain et al. 2023):
Nomiapis bispinosa (Brullé, 1832)
Nomiapis diversipes (Latreille, 1806)
Nomiapis equestris (Gerstaecker, 1872)
Nomiapis femoralis (Pallas, 1773)
Nomiapis fugax (Morawitz, 1877)
Nomiapis monstrosa (Costa, 1861)
Nomiapis paulyi Wood & Le Divelec, 2022
Nomiapis rufiventris (Spinola, 1838)
Nomiapis valga (Gerstaecker, 1872)
References with identification keys for some of the species:
  • Warncke K. (1976). Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Bienengattung Nomia Latr. In der Westpaläarktis und dem turkestanischen Becken (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Reichenbachia, Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden, 16 (7): 93-120.
  • Amiet F., Müller A. & Neumeyer R.,1999. Apidae 2: Colletes, Dufourea, Hylaeus, Nomia, Nomioides, Rhophitoides, Rophites, Sphecodes, Systropha (Fauna Helvetica 4). Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune (CSCF), Neuchâtel, 239 pp.
  • Pesenko, Y.A., Banaszak, J., Radchenko, V.G. & Cierzniak, T. 2000. Bees of the family Halictidae (excluding Sphecodes) of Poland. Bydgoszcz. 348pp.
  • Baker D.B. 2002. On Palaearctic and Oriental species of the genera Pseudapis W.F. Kirby, 1900, and Nomiapis Cockerell, 1919. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 52 (1): 1-83.
Online resources:
Atlas hymenoptera (Europe & Belgium)
WestPalBees (West Palearctic)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2023)
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2019)

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