Author: Kirby, 1900

Type species: Nomia lobata Oliver, 1811, by original designation.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Halictidae
Subfamily: Nomiinae
Tribe: Nomiini
Distinctive traits
  • Enlarged tegulae
  • 3 Submarginal cells
  • Terga with apical bands 
Pictures of distinctive traits.
Morphologically close genera and how to distinguish them
The only other genus that can be confused with Pseudapis in Europe is Nomiapis Cockerell, 1919.
  • Pseudapis - Nomiapis
Pseudapis have metasomal terga with apical bands of light hair, with short, dense decumbent scaly hairs sometimes interrupted in the middle. Sides of T1 pubescent with short, dense, scaly hairs, making impossible to see the sculpture of the cuticula.
Nomiapis have the posterior areas of the metasomal terga hyaline-translucent, without hair bands. T1 with long, sparse, simple, raised and semi-decumbent hairs on its dorsal surface and with long, semi-decumbent scaly hairs at its sides, the lateral hairs not concealing entirely the sculpture of the surface.


General comments on Pseudapis species identification
Sorry, there is no information yet about Pseudapis species identification.
Sorry, but the species identification tool is not yet available for Nomiapis. 
Please check the reference(s) below for traditional keys.
List of the Pseudapis species found in Europe (Ghisbain et al. 2023):
Pseudapis elegantissima (Popov, 1949)
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. 2023)

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