Subgenus Michenerella
The subgenus Michenerella Krombein occurs in the Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental region. It contains 16 described species in the Palaearctic.
Species accounts
Heriades (Michenerella) alfkeni Benoist, 1938
1938 Heriades Alfkeni Benoist, Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 43: 85. Type material: m(m), “Turkestan: Tartugai près de Perowsk” [Kazakhstan], MNHN (Paris).
Distribution-Northern Asia: KZ.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Popov (1955: 283-284). Note: Female unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) ammodendri Popov, 1960
1960 Heriades (Eutrypetes) ammodendri Popov, Trudy Zoologiceskzo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR (Leningrad [St. Petersburg]), 27: 256. Type material: Lectotype f, by designation of A. Müller (unpublished), “Orta-Kuyu (Karakum desert)”, “River Kirpili, 100 km northeast Gyzylarbat” [Turkmenistan], ZIN (St. Petersburg); paralectotype f.
Distribution-Northern Asia: TM.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known. Note: Male unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) cancava Wu, 1982
1982 Heriades cancavus Wu, Insects of Xizang, vol. 2, p. 406, p. 424. Type material: Holotype m, “Xizang: Chagyab, 3600 m” [China], IZCAS (Beijing).-Combination Heriades (Heriades) cancavus Wu in Wu (2006: 78).
Distribution-Northern Asia: RC(WP).
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Wu (2006). Note: Female unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) clypeonitida Müller & Wood, 2025
2025 Heriades (Michenerella) clypeonitida Müller & Wood, Zootaxa, 5631, 84. Type material: Holotype f, “Segovia, Carbonero el Mayor, 2 km SW C. las Tejeras to Rio Eresma” [Spain], ETH (Zurich); paratypes ff, m.
Distribution-Europe: BG, E, GR, GR(Aegean Islands). Southwestern Asia: TR.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown. Flower records: Eryngium campestre (Apiaceae) (Müller & Wood, 2025).
Heriades (Michenerella) discrepans Benoist, 1938
1938 Heriades discrepans Benoist, Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 43: 88. Type material: f(f), “La Calle” [Algeria], MNHN (Paris).
Distribution-Northern Africa: DZ, MA, TN.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known. Note: Male unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Probably polylectic (A. Müller, unpublished, based on 1 pollen sample).
Heriades (Michenerella) fujiyamai Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1952
1952 Heriades fujiyamai Yasumatsu & Hirashima. Type material: “Hachijo Island” [Japan].
Distribution-Northern Asia: J.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Yasumatsu and Hirashima (1965: 254)
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) hissarica Popov, 1955
1955 Heriades (Eutrypetes) hissarica Popov, Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 34: 285. Type material: Lectotype f, by designation of A. Müller (unpublished), “Kondara, 1100 m” [Tajikistan], ZIN (St. Petersburg).
Distribution-Northern Asia: KZ, TJ, UZ. Southwestern Asia: IR, TR.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Khodoparast & Monfared (2013: 243).
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: The only four pollen samples available so far (from three different localities) consist of pollen of Resedaceae (A. Müller, unpublished). Flower records: Caylurea hexagona.
Heriades (Michenerella) latipes Popov, 1960
1960 Heriades (Eutrypetes) latipes Popov, Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 39: 427. Type material: Syntypes mm, ff, “Tartugai”, “Baigakum near Juleck” [Kazakhstan], ZIN (St. Petersburg).
Distribution-Northern Asia: KZ.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions:No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) longicornis Popov, 1960
1960 Heriades longicornis Popov, Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 39: 424. Type material: Syntypes mm, f, “Tartugai” [Kazakhstan], ZIN (St. Petersburg).
Distribution-Northern Asia: KZ.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) parvula Bingham, 1897
1897 Heriades parvula Bingham, The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Hymenoptera, vol. 1, p. 508.Type material: f(f), “Rangoon, Burma” [Burma], BMNH (London).-Combination Heriades (Heriades) parvulus Bingham in Wu (2006: 78).
1925 Heriades binghami Dover, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London), ser. 9, 15: 230. NOMEN NOVUM with same type specimen for presumptively preoccupied Heriades parvulus Bingham, 1897 [not unavailable Megachile parvula Cameron, 1896].
Distribution-Northern Asia: RC(SW). Extralimital: Oriental (Burma).
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Wu (2006). Note: Male unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) punctulifera Schletterer, 1889
1889 Heriades punctulifera Schletterer, Zoologisches Jahrbuch für Systematik, 4: 670. Type material: Syntypes mm, “Adalia in Kleinasien” [Turkey], ZMHB (Berlin).
1922 Eriades (Trypetes) dalmaticus Maidl, Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 35: 93. Type material: Holotype f, “Spalato” [Croatia], NMW (Wien).-Combination Heriades (Eutrypetes) dalmaticus Maidl in Mavromoustakis (1958: 443). New synonymy based on type material (A. Müller, unpublished).
Distribution-Europe: AZ, BG, GR, GR(Aegean Islands), HR, I(Si), M. Southwestern Asia: CY, IL, RL, SYR, TR.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions:Friese (1898); Mavromoustakis (1958: 443).
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Polylectic (A. Müller, unpublished, based on 8 pollen samples from 6 different localities). Flower records: Dittrichia viscosa, Calamintha nepeta (Standfuss et al., 2003).
– subspecies punctulifera Schletterer, 1889
1922 Automatically established nominotypical subspecific taxon (original description and type specimen are identical with those of the species rank taxon of the same name above).
Distribution-Europe: AZ, BG, GR, HR, I(Si), M. Southwestern Asia: IL, RL, SYR, TR.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
– subspecies troodica Mavromoustakis, 1951
1951 Eriades dalmatica troodica Mavromoustakis, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London), ser. 12, 4: 352. Type material: Holotype f, “Mt. Troodos, open slopes, 5500 ft.” [Cyprus], DAAN (Nicosia); paratypes ff.
Distribution-Southwestern Asia: CY.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known. Note: Male unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) sakishimana Yasumatsu & Hirashima, 1965
1911 Heriades sakishimanus Yasumatsu & Hirashima, Kontyu, 33: 253. Type material: Holotype f, “Shirahama, Iriomote-jima” [Japan], KUEC (Fukuoka); paratype f.
Distribution-Northern Asia: J.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known. Note: Male unknown.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) sauteri Cockerell, 1911
1911 Heriades sauteri Cockerell, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London), ser. 8, 7: 314. Type material: Syntypes m(m), f(f), “Formosa” [Taiwan], ZMHB (Berlin), San Francisco.-Combination Heriades (Heriades) sauteri Cockerell in Wu (2006: 77).
Distribution-Northern Asia: J, RC(SW), TW.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Wu (2006); Yasumatsu and Hirashima (1965: 253-254).
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) shestakovi Popov, 1960
1960 Heriades (Eutrypetes) shestakovi Popov, Trudy Zoologiceskzo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR (Leningrad [St. Petersburg]), 27: 257. Type material: Syntypes mm, ff, “Uch-Aji in the Bairam-Alpine region”, “Farab, 8 km from Chardzhou” [Turkmenistan], ZIN (St. Petersburg).
Distribution-Northern Asia: TM.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions:No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) turcomanica Popov, 1955
1955 Heriades (Eutrypetes) turcomanica Popov, Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 34: 281. Type material: Lectotype m, by designation of A. Müller (unpublished), “Southern Turkmenistan, Iman-Baba” [Turkmenistan], ZIN (St. Petersburg).
Distribution-Northern Asia: TM.
Identification-Keys, Descriptions:No supplementary or more detailed morphological description known.
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Unknown.
Heriades (Michenerella) yunnanensis Wu, 1993
1993 Heriades yunnanensis Wu, Insects of the Hengduan Mountains Region, vol. 2, p. 1389, p. 1418. Type material: Holotype m, “Yunnan, Yongshengludei, 2250 m” [China], IZCAS (Beijing); paratypes m, f.
Distribution-Northern Asia:RC(SW).
Identification-Keys, Descriptions: Wu (2006).
Nesting biology: Unknown.
Flower preferences: Flower records: Lithospermum erythrorhizon (Wu, 2006).