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Melittin vs Melittid - What's the difference?

melittin | melittid |

As nouns the difference between melittin and melittid

is that melittin is a toxic peptide that is the main component of the venom of honey bees while melittid is any bee of the family Melittidae.

melittin

English

Noun

(wikipedia melittin) (en noun)
  • A toxic peptide that is the main component of the venom of honey bees

    • melittid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any bee of the family Melittidae.
  • * 1992 , David W. Roubik (editor), Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Bees , page 45,
    • Regarding the transport sites, apids, melittids , ctenoplectrids, and megachilids all show little variation whereas the other bee families display wide variation.
  • * 2000 , Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World , Volume 1, page 95,
    • In further support of the antiquity of this clade is the widely disjunct distribution of some of its basal members among the dasypodaine melittids , as indicated in Sections 26 and 68 and Michener (1981a).
  • * 2010 , Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: A Plant and Pollination Miscellany , page 105,
    • The relatively good fossil representation of melittids and their long-tongued associates has been argued to be a reflection of a bias in favour of resin-collecting bees.