Protosmia is a genus of subgenus Chelostomopsis in the family Megachilidae. There are more than 30 described species in Protosmia.
Species
These 31 species belong to the genus Protosmia:
- Protosmia asensioi <small>Griswold & Parker, 1987</small>
- Protosmia burmanica <small>(Bingham, 1897)</small>
- Protosmia capitata <small>(Schletterer, 1889)</small>
- Protosmia decipiens <small>(Benoist, 1935)</small>
- Protosmia devia <small>Tkalcu, 1978</small>
- Protosmia exenterata <small>(Pérez, 1896)</small>
- Protosmia glutinosa <small>(Giraud, 1871)</small>
- Protosmia hamulifera <small>Griswold, 2013</small>
- Protosmia humeralis <small>(Pérez, 1896)</small>
- Protosmia judaica <small>(Mavromoustakis, 1948)</small>
- Protosmia limbata <small>(Benoist, 1935)</small>
- Protosmia longiceps <small>(Friese, 1899)</small>
- Protosmia luctuosa <small>(Lucas, 1848)</small>
- Protosmia magnicapitis <small>(Stanek, 1969)</small>
- Protosmia megaceps <small>(Kohl, 1906)</small>
- Protosmia minutula <small>(Pérez, 1896)</small>
- Protosmia monstrosa <small>(Pérez, 1895)</small>
- Protosmia montana
- Protosmia octomaculata <small>(Pérez, 1895)</small>
- Protosmia paradoxa <small>(Friese, 1899)</small>
- Protosmia pulex <small>(Benoist, 1935)</small>
- Protosmia querquedula <small>van der Zanden, 1994</small>
- Protosmia rubifloris <small>(Cockerell, 1898)</small>
- Protosmia schwarzi <small>Griswold, 2013</small>
- Protosmia sicula <small>(Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895)</small>
- Protosmia sideritis <small>Tkalcu, 1978</small>
- Protosmia stelidoides <small>(Pérez, 1895)</small>
- Protosmia stigmatica <small>(Pérez, 1895)</small>
- Protosmia tauricola <small>Popov, 1961</small>
- Protosmia tiflensis <small>(Morawitz, 1876)</small>
- Protosmia trifida <small>Griswold, 2013</small>
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