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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Megachilidae
Genus: Protosmia
Species (32): P. asensioi – P. burmanica – P. capitata – P. angustimandibulae – P. decipiens – P. devia – P. exenterata – P. glutinosa – P. hamulifera – P. humeralis – P. judaica – P. limbata – P. longiceps – P. luctuosa – P. magnicapitis – P. megaceps – P. minutula – P. monstrosa – P. montana – P. octomaculata – P. paradoxa – P. pulex – P. querquedula – P. rubifloris – P. schwarzi – P. sicula – P. sideritis – P. stelidoides – P. stigmatica – P. tauricola – P. tiflensis – P. trifida

[Source: Catalogue of Life: 2013 Annual Checklist, plus (4) P. hamulifera – P. montana – P. schwarzi – P. trifida
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In synonymy (1): P. graeffei
Name

Protosmia Ducke, 1900

Primary references

Ducke, A. 1900: Die Bienengattung Osmia Panz. Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 25: 1–323. BHL [first availability, see p. 12]

References

Müller, A. 2017. Palaearctic Protosmia bees of the subgenus Chelostomopsis (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species. Zootaxa 4227(2): 287–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.2.9. Reference page.
Popov, V.B. 1961: On the evolution of bee-genera Protosmia Ducke and Chelostomopsis Ckll. (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 40: 359–370. [Not seen]

Protosmia is a genus of subgenus Chelostomopsis in the family Megachilidae. There are more than 30 described species in Protosmia.[1][2][3]
Species

These 31 species belong to the genus Protosmia:

Protosmia asensioi Griswold & Parker, 1987
Protosmia burmanica (Bingham, 1897)
Protosmia capitata (Schletterer, 1889)
Protosmia decipiens (Benoist, 1935)
Protosmia devia Tkalcu, 1978
Protosmia exenterata (Pérez, 1896)
Protosmia glutinosa (Giraud, 1871)
Protosmia hamulifera Griswold, 2013
Protosmia humeralis (Pérez, 1896)
Protosmia judaica (Mavromoustakis, 1948)
Protosmia limbata (Benoist, 1935)
Protosmia longiceps (Friese, 1899)
Protosmia luctuosa (Lucas, 1848)
Protosmia magnicapitis (Stanek, 1969)
Protosmia megaceps (Kohl, 1906)
Protosmia minutula (Pérez, 1896)
Protosmia monstrosa (Pérez, 1895)
Protosmia montana
Protosmia octomaculata (Pérez, 1895)
Protosmia paradoxa (Friese, 1899)
Protosmia pulex (Benoist, 1935)
Protosmia querquedula van der Zanden, 1994
Protosmia rubifloris (Cockerell, 1898)
Protosmia schwarzi Griswold, 2013
Protosmia sicula (Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895)
Protosmia sideritis Tkalcu, 1978
Protosmia stelidoides (Pérez, 1895)
Protosmia stigmatica (Pérez, 1895)
Protosmia tauricola Popov, 1961
Protosmia tiflensis (Morawitz, 1876)
Protosmia trifida Griswold, 2013

References

"Protosmia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
"Protosmia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

"Protosmia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading

Griswold, Terry (1986). "Notes on the Nesting Biology of Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) rubifloris (Cockerell) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 62 (1): 84–87. ISSN 0031-0603.
Ungricht, Stefan; Müller, Andreas; Dorn, Silvia (2008). "A taxonomic catalogue of the Palaearctic bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae)". Zootaxa. 1865 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1865.1.1. ISBN 9781869772550.
Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019). "Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.

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