Biastes is a genus of cuckoo bees belonging to the family Apidae. Its constituency has been expanded to include species formerly treated in the genus Neopasites, now a subgenus within Biastes.Sless, Trevor J.L., Odanaka, K.A., Alva-Caballero L.X., et al. (2025). Expanded phylogeny of Nomadinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae) with integration of UCE and DNA barcode sequence data. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(3): 1-9 doi:10.1093/isd/ixaf011
Subgenera and species
Subgenus Biastes s.s. Biastes brevicornis (Panzer, 1798) Biastes emarginatus (Schenck, 1853)
Subgenus Melittoxena Morawitz, 1876
Biastes popovi Proshchalykin and Lelej, 2004 Biastes schmidti Heinrich, 1977 Biastes truncatus (Nylander, 1848)
Subgenus Neopasites Ashmead, 1898
Biastes cressoni (Crawford, 1916) Biastes fulviventris (Cresson, 1878) Biastes mojavensis (Linsley, 1943) Biastes sierrae (Linsley, 1943) Biastes timberlakei (Linsley, 1943)
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