Noteriades

Taxonomy

Family: Megachilidae
Subfamily: Megachilinae
Tribe: Megachilini
Genus: Noteriades Cockerell, 1931
Subgenera: none
Common name: none

Overview

Noteriades have a compact body form and overall black coloration, with small amounts of pale hair throughout the body, and white apicalapical:
near or at the apex or end of any structure
bands of hair on their tergaterga:
the segments on the top side of the abdomen, often abbreviated when referring to a specific segment to T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, or T7
(Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.). They range in body length from 4.5–10 mm. The genus has recently been moved from the tribe Osmiini to Megachilini (Gonzalez et al. 2012Gonzalez et al. 2012:
Gonzalez, V.H., T. Griswold, C.J. Praz, B.N. Danforth. 2012. Phylogeny of the bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) based on adult morphology. Systematic Entomology 37: 261ndash;286.).

Diversity

Noteriades contains 9 species described and as many as 6 undescribed species worldwide (Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.); none are known to occur in the U.S. or Canada.

Diagnostic characteristics

(modified from Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.)

• Clypeus clypeus:
  a section of the face below the antennae, demarcated by the epistomal sutures
  with longitudinal carinacarina:
  a clearly defined ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute; usually appears on bees as simply a raised line
  .
• Front and middle tibiatibia:
  the segment of the leg, between the femur and the tarsus
  with two apicalapical:
  near or at the apex or end of any structure
  spines. The anterioranterior:
  toward the head or on the head side of a segment being described
  spine is small and blunt.
• Scutellum scutellum:
  shield shaped plate behind scutum
  with transverse preapicalpreapical:
  referring to a section of a bee that is physically found just before the outermost (or apical) end of the section or segment
  carinacarina:
  a clearly defined ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute; usually appears on bees as simply a raised line
  .
• Scutellum scutellum:
  shield shaped plate behind scutum
  distinctly overhanging metanotummetanotum:
  the posterior dorsal segment of the thorax, behind the scutellum
  .
• T1 with raised carinacarina:
  a clearly defined ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute; usually appears on bees as simply a raised line
  where the anterioranterior:
  toward the head or on the head side of a segment being described
  and dorsaldorsal:
  in general, the upper surface
  surfaces meet.
• Female T6T6:
  the segments on the top side of the abdomen, often abbreviated when referring to a specific segment to T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, or T7
  with a wide apicalapical:
  near or at the apex or end of any structure
  hyaline rim.

May be confused with

Noteriades may be confused with female Pseudoheriades and Afroheriades, but can be differentiated by the characteristics above (Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.).

Known invasives

There are no known invasives.

Host associations

Floral associations are unknown.

Nesting behavior

Nesting behavior is unknown; however, a female specimen has been seen at an entrance to a burrow in wood (Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.).

Distribution

Noteriades is an Old WorldOld World:
the part of the world that was known before the discovery of the Americas, comprised of Europe, Asia, and Africa; the Eastern Hemisphere
genus, and can be found in temperate and tropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa as well as in southern Asia in India, Burma, Myanmar, and Thailand (Michener 2007Michener 2007:
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.; Griswold and Gonzalez 2011Griswold and Gonzalez 2011:
Griswold, T. and V.H. Gonzalez. 2011. New species of the Eastern Hemisphere genera Afroheriades and Noteriades (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), with keys to species of the former. Zookeys 159: 65ndash;80.).

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References

Griswold, T. and V.H. Gonzalez. 2011. New species of the Eastern Hemisphere genera Afroheriades and Noteriades (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), with keys to species of the former. Zookeys 159:65-80.
 
Gonzalez, V.H., T. Griswold, C.J. Praz, B.N. Danforth. 2012. Phylogeny of the bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) based on adult morphology. Systematic Entomology 37:261-286.
 
Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World (2nd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.