- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies
- ›Narrow-waisted Wasps, Ants, and Bees
- ›Ants, Bees, and Stinging Wasps
- ›Bees and Apoid Wasps
- ›Bees
- ›Mason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees
- ›Megachilinae
- ›Osmiini
- ›Heriades
Heriades
Heriades is a genus of solitary bees in the family Megachilidae, spanning eight subgenera: Amboheriades, Heriades, Michenerella, Neotrypetes, Pachyheriades, Rhopaloheriades, Toxeriades, and Tyttheriades. Heriades means "wool", and is likely a reference to the hairy patches found on the abdomen of several species.
Fairly small and usually black, they are found all over the world. There are more than 130 species worldwide, roughly 25 species in North and Central America, but only three species are native east of the Rocky Mountains. European species such as H. truncorum can be found on the east coast of the US. Like other bees in the tribe Osmiini, Hoplitis and Ashmeadiella, they nest in wood stems and cavities in wood excavated by other insects, as well as occasionally in pine cones.
28 branches of this group, most-observed first
Large-headed Armoured-Resin bee
speciesHeriades truncorum
Crenulate Armoured-Resin bee
speciesHeriades crenulata
Small-headed Resin Bee
speciesHeriades rubicola
Heriades angusticeps
speciesHeriades angusticeps
Heriades capicola
speciesHeriades capicola
Heriades chubbi
speciesHeriades chubbi
Heriades freygessneri
speciesHeriades freygessneri
Heriades ingogoensis
speciesHeriades ingogoensis
Heriades longispinis
speciesHeriades longispinis
Heriades rowlandi
speciesHeriades rowlandi
Heriades scutellatus
speciesHeriades scutellatus
Heriades spiniscutis
speciesHeriades spiniscutis
Heriades strictifrons
speciesHeriades strictifrons
Heriades xanthogaster
speciesHeriades xanthogaster
Heriades nodulosa
speciesHeriades nodulosa
Heriades albiscopana
speciesHeriades albiscopana
Heriades ambigua
speciesHeriades ambigua
Heriades angustula
speciesHeriades angustula
Heriades arcuatella
speciesHeriades arcuatella
Heriades cingulata
speciesHeriades cingulata
Heriades civica
speciesHeriades civica
Heriades nasifera
speciesHeriades nasifera
Heriades erythrosoma
speciesHeriades erythrosoma
Heriades chariensis
speciesHeriades chariensis
Heriades chrysogaster
speciesHeriades chrysogaster
Heriades orientalis
speciesHeriades orientalis
Heriades wellmani
speciesHeriades wellmani
Heriades hierosolomitus
speciesHeriades hierosolomitus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Heriades in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 699696.