Bee groups
The wild bees and the honey bee of Europe, by genus: how many species there are, how threatened they are, when they fly and which crops they visit.
54 bee groupsOpen sources, with attributionFigures come live from the bee database
54
Bee groups with their own page
2,196
Species in these groups in Europe
164
Threatened (CR, EN or VU)
6
Families
Family Apidae
By family, with the number of species in Europe and how many of them are threatened.
| Group | Species in Europe | Threatened (Europe) | Share threatened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nomad BeesNomada | 235 | 29 | 12% |
| Eucera | 98 | 3 | 3% |
| Anthophora | 82 | 4 | 5% |
| Bumble BeesBombus | 65 | 14 | 22% |
| Small Carpenter BeesCeratina | 27 | 0 | 0% |
| Melecta | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| Tetraloniella | 19 | 0 | 0% |
| Epeolus | 18 | 2 | 11% |
| Amegilla | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| Ammobates | 13 | 2 | 15% |
| Thyreus | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| Carpenter BeesXylocopa | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| Ancyla | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Ammobatoides | 4 | 1 | 25% |
| Habropoda | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Biastes | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Honey beesApis | 1 | 0 | 0% |
Family Andrenidae
| Group | Species in Europe | Threatened (Europe) | Share threatened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrena | 483 | 34 | 7% |
| Panurginus | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| Panurgus | 13 | 0 | 0% |
| Flavipanurgus | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Melitturga | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Camptopoeum | 4 | 0 | 0% |
Family Megachilidae
By family, with the number of species in Europe and how many of them are threatened.
| Group | Species in Europe | Threatened (Europe) | Share threatened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoplitis | 110 | 5 | 5% |
| Mason BeesOsmia | 103 | 1 | 1% |
| Leaf-cutter and Resin BeesMegachile | 96 | 4 | 4% |
| Cuckoo-leaf-cutter BeesCoelioxys | 30 | 2 | 7% |
| Stelis | 26 | 2 | 8% |
| Chelostoma | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| Anthidium | 20 | 1 | 5% |
| Protosmia | 16 | 0 | 0% |
| Trachusa | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Pseudoanthidium | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| Dioxys | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Heriades | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Rhodanthidium | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Icteranthidium | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| Eoanthidium | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Stenoheriades | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Anthidiellum | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Lithurgus | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Afranthidium | 3 | 0 | 0% |
Family Colletidae
By family, with the number of species in Europe and how many of them are threatened.
| Group | Species in Europe | Threatened (Europe) | Share threatened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masked BeesHylaeus | 90 | 5 | 6% |
| Cellophane beesColletes | 65 | 13 | 20% |
Sources
This page only uses sources with an open licence. The bee database itself contains more records, from sources for which permission is still pending.
- Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), tab-delimited version
Zenodo / Discover Life · version v57.0 · licence CC-BY-4.0
Ascher, J. S. and J. Pickering. 2024. Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Apoidea_species Draft-57, 27 February, 2024
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19954082 - Wikidata: taxon common names (P1843) and labels of bee species
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata · version SPARQL 2026-10-18 · licence CC0 1.0
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata, taxon common names (P1843) and labels, retrieved 2026-10-18. https://www.wikidata.org (CC0).
www.wikidata.org - European Red List of Bees (2026), Appendix 1: Red List status at Pan-Europe and EU27 levels
Publications Office of the European Union / IUCN · version 2026 · licence CC BY 4.0
Michez, D. et al. (2026). European Red List of Bees. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2779/521877 (CC BY 4.0). Appendix 1.
doi.org/10.2779/521877 - BeeBDC beesChecklist: country checklist of the world's bees (Discover Life), 2026-01-12
Flinders University / Figshare · version 2026-01-12 · licence CC BY 4.0
Dorey, J. B. et al. (2023). A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow. Scientific Data 10: 747. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02626-w; beesChecklist 2026-01-12 (Figshare, CC BY 4.0), based on the Discover Life country checklist (Ascher & Pickering).
doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02626-w
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