Notes on family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) Author Engel, Michael S. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 - 4415, USA (msengel @ ku. edu). & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West text Journal of Melittology 2015 2015-03-13 2015 46 1 7 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/jom.v0i46.4839 journal article 10.17161/jom.v0i46.4839 2325-4467 13145840 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0626B747-69EF-4C66-A9C5-A2EEB29187C1 Family Melittidae Kawall Melittidae Kawall, 1857: 77 . Type genus: Melitta Kirby, 1802 . Combining stem: Melitt–.