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Monoeca Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Monoeca Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, J. G. A. (1828). [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [528] .
Type species: Monoeca brasiliensis Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 by monotypy.

Epeicharis Radoszkowski, O. (1884). Quelques nouveaux hyménoptéres d’Amerique. Horae Societas Entomologica Rossica 18: 17-22 [18] .
Type species: Epeicharis mexicanus Radoszkowsky, 1884 by monotypy.

Fiorentinia Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [334] (unnecessary nom. nov. for Epeicharis Radoszkowsky, 1884) .
Type species: Epeicharis mexicanus Radoszkowski, 1884 .

Pachycentris Friese, H. (1902). Zwei neue Bienengattungen (Hym.). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 2: 185-187 [186] .
Type species: Pachycentris schrottkyi Friese, 1902 by monotypy.

Chaetostetha Michener, C. D. (1942). Taxonomic observations on bees with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 50: 273-282 [281] .
Type species: Exomalopsis pyropyga Friese, 1925 by original designation.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Corrientes, Misiones), Brazil (Distrito Federal [Distrito Federal], Goiás [Aparecida Do Rio Doce, Formosa], Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais [Barbacena, Lavras, Paraopeba, Sacramento, Serra Do Salitre, Uberlândia, Viçosa], Paraná [Colombo, Piraquara, Tijucas Do Sul], Rio Grande do Sul [Cambará Do Sul, Canela, São Francisco De Paula], Rio de Janeiro [Rio De Janeiro], Santa Catarina [Florianópolis, Rio Dos Cedros], São Paulo [Barueri, Cajuru, Corumbataí, Jundiaí, Monte Alegre Do Sul, Pratânia, Ribeirão Preto, Salesópolis, Santos, São Paulo, São Simão], Tocantins [Taguatinga]), Costa Rica (San José), Mexico (Jalisco, Morelos), Panama

References

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Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [251] (Taxonomy (as Monoeca))
Harter-Marques, B., R. da Cunha & J. S. Moure (2001). Uma nova espécie de Monoeca (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Tapinotaspidini) do Planalto das Araucárias, no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Biociências 9 (1): 99-110 [100] (Note)
LaBerge, W. E. & Moure, J. S. (1962). Type specimens of American Eucerini bees deposited in the British Museum (Hymenoptera- Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná, Zool. 1 (11): 1-12 [11] (Citation (as Monoeca))
Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1841). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 2 680 pp. [114, 415] (Redescription, note)
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Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 1-175 [116] (Citation (as Fiorentinia))
Michener, C. D. (1997). Genus-group names of bees and supplemental family-group names. Sci. Papers, Nat. Hist. Mus., Univ. Kansas 1: 1-81 [14, 22, 25, 39, 43] (Taxonomy, citation, as Chaetostetha, Epeicharis, Fiorentinia, Florentina, Monoeca and Pachycentris)
Michener, C. D. (2000). The Bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [670] (Taxonomic notes (as Monoeca))
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Last update : 17 Jul 2023

Available Species

Monoeca armata Torretta & Roig-Alsina, 2016
Monoeca brasiliensis Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Monoeca campestris Aguiar, 2012
Monoeca catarina Aguiar, 2012
Monoeca haemorrhoidalis (Smith, 1854)
Monoeca lanei (Moure, 1944)
Monoeca mexicana (Radoszkowski, 1884)
Monoeca mourei Aguiar, 2012
Monoeca planaltina Aguiar, 2012
Monoeca pluricincta (Vachal, 1909)
Monoeca pulchella Torretta & Roig-Alsina, 2016
Monoeca pyropyga (Friese, 1925)
Monoeca schrottkyi (Friese, 1902)
Monoeca xanthopyga Harter-Marques, Cunha & Moure, 2001