General features:

  • Long-tongue bees
  • Rectangular, longer than broad and broadly articulating with clypeus
  • Lack of basitibial plate (except in Lithurgus)
  • Forewing with 2 submarginal cells
  • Metasomal sterna with scopa (except in the parasitic forms)

Habitus

Habitus


Antenna

Antenna


Head

Head


Head

Head


Mouth

Mouth


Leg

Leg


Metasoma

Metasoma


Wing

Wing venation


Wing

Wing cells