# Lipotriches

In biology, Lipotriches is a large genus of sweat bees in the family Halictidae, distributed widely throughout the Eastern Hemisphere though absent from Europe. There are nearly 200 species in 9 subgenera. They commonly have prominent bands of hair on the margins of the metasomal segments.

## Description and biology

Members of this genus are important pollinators of plants, especially grasses, in fact 5 species of this genus from South Africa are recorded to gather grass pollen, with four doing so exclusively. They often have more slender bodies relative to other nomiine bees.

## Species

* Lipotriches ablusa (Cockerell, 1931)
* Lipotriches acaciae (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches adelaidella (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches aenea (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches aenescens (Friese, 1912)
* Lipotriches aerata (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches alberti (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches albitarsis (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches alboscopacea (Friese, 1917)
* Lipotriches alternata (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches amatha (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches analis (Friese, 1924)
* Lipotriches analis (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches andrei (Vachal, 1897)
* Lipotriches antennata (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches apicata (Cockerell, 1936)
* Lipotriches argentifrons (Smith, 1862)
* Lipotriches armatipes (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches armatula (Dalla Torre, 1896)
* Lipotriches arnoldi (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches aurata (Bingham, 1897)
* Lipotriches aureohirta (Cameron, 1898)
* Lipotriches aureotecta (Cockerell, 1931)
* Lipotriches aurifrons (Smith, 1853)
* Lipotriches austella (Hirashima, 1978)
* Lipotriches australica (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches azarensis (Cockerell, 1932)
* Lipotriches babindensis (Cockerell, 1930)
* Lipotriches bantarica (Cockerell, 1919)
* Lipotriches basipicta (Wickwar, 1908)
* Lipotriches bechuanella (Cockerell, 1939)
* Lipotriches bequaertiella (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches betsilei (Saussure, 1890)
* Lipotriches bicarinata (Cameron, 1903)
* Lipotriches bigibba (Saussure, 1890)
* Lipotriches blandula (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches bombayensis (Cameron, 1908)
* Lipotriches brachysoma (Schletterer, 1891)
* Lipotriches brevipennis (Friese, 1915)
* Lipotriches brisbanensis (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches brooksi (Pauly, 1991)
* Lipotriches burmica (Cockerell, 1920)
* Lipotriches ceratina (Smith, 1857)
* Lipotriches cheesmanae (Michener, 1965)
* Lipotriches chilwensis (Cockerell, 1939)
* Lipotriches cincticauda (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches cinerascens (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches circumnitens (Cockerell, 1946)
* Lipotriches cirrita (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches clavata (Smith, 1853)
* Lipotriches clavicornis (Warncke, 1980)
* Lipotriches clavisetis (Vachal, 1910)
* Lipotriches clypeata (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches collaris (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches crassula (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches cribrosa (Spinola, 1843)
* Lipotriches crocodilensis (Pauly, 1990)
* Lipotriches cubitalis (Vachal, 1897)
* Lipotriches cyanella (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches dentipes (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches dentiventris (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches derema (Strand, 1914)
* Lipotriches desolata (Cockerell, 1941)
* Lipotriches digitata (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches dimissa (Cockerell, 1921)
* Lipotriches doddii (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches dominarum (Cockerell, 1932)
* Lipotriches echinata (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches edirisinghei Pauly, 2006
* Lipotriches elongata (Friese, 1914)
* Lipotriches elongatula (Cockerell, 1915)
* Lipotriches erimae (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches esakii (Hirashima, 1961)
* Lipotriches ethioparca (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches exagens (Walker, 1860)
* Lipotriches excellens (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches femorata (Friese, 1936)
* Lipotriches ferricauda (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches fervida (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches fimbriata (Vachal, 1897)
* Lipotriches flavitarsis (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches flavoviridis (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches floralis (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches fortior (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches frenchi (Cockerell, 1912)
* Lipotriches friesei (Magretti, 1899)
* Lipotriches fruhstorferi (Pérez, 1905)
* Lipotriches fulvinerva (Cameron, 1907)
* Lipotriches fulvohirta (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches fumipennis (Pauly, 2001)
* Lipotriches generosa (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches geophila (Cockerell, 1930)
* Lipotriches gilberti (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches goniognatha (Cockerell, 1919)
* Lipotriches gracilipes (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches gratiosa (Friese, 1914)
* Lipotriches grisella (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches (Lipotriches) guihongi (Zhang et al, 2022)
* Lipotriches guineensis (Strand, 1912)
* Lipotriches guluensis (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches halictella (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches hippophila (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches hirsutissima (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches hirsutula (Cockerell, 1947)
* Lipotriches hylaeoides (Gerstäcker, 1857)
* Lipotriches hypodonta (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches inaequalis (Cockerell, 1931)
* Lipotriches inamoena (Benoist, 1950)
* Lipotriches jacobsoni (Friese, 1914)
* Lipotriches johannis (Cockerell, 1946)
* Lipotriches kabindana (Strand, 1920)
* Lipotriches kamerunensis (Friese, 1916)
* Lipotriches kampalana (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches kangrae (Nurse, 1904)
* Lipotriches kankauana (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches kasoutina (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches katonana (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches kondeana (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches krombeini (Hirashima, 1978)
* Lipotriches kurandina (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches lactinea (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches lamellicornis (Friese, 1911)
* Lipotriches langi (Cockerell, 1932)
* Lipotriches latetibialis (Friese, 1924)
* Lipotriches latifacies (Strand, 1911)
* Lipotriches lautula (Cockerell, 1919)
* Lipotriches leucomelanura (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches ligata (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches lubumbashica (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches lucidula (Vachal, 1910)
* Lipotriches luridipes (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches maai (Michener, 1965)
* Lipotriches macropus (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches magniventris (Friese, 1914)
* Lipotriches makomensis (Strand, 1912)
* Lipotriches meadewaldoi (Brauns, 1912)
* Lipotriches medani (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches media (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches mediorufa (Cockerell, 1912)
* Lipotriches melanodonta (Cockerell, 1926)
* Lipotriches melanoptera (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches melanosoma (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches melvilliana (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches minuta (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches minutula (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches miranda (Rayment, 1954)
* Lipotriches modesta (Smith, 1862)
* Lipotriches moerens (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches mollis (Smith, 1879)
* Lipotriches montana (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches montana (Ebmer, 1978)
* Lipotriches morata (Cockerell, 1920)
* Lipotriches mozambensis (Pauly, 2003)
* Lipotriches muscosa (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches musgravei (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches nana (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches (Maynenomia) nanensis (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches natalensis (Cockerell, 1916)
* Lipotriches negligenda (Dalla Torre, 1896)
* Lipotriches nigra (Wu, 1985)
* Lipotriches nitidibasis (Cockerell, 1920)
* Lipotriches notabilis (Schletterer, 1891)
* Lipotriches notiomorpha (Hirashima, 1978)
* Lipotriches nubecula (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches nubilosa (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches nuda (Rayment, 1939)
* Lipotriches oberthuerella (Saussure, 1890)
* Lipotriches obscura (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches odontostoma (Cockerell, 1941)
* Lipotriches opacibasis (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches orientalis (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches pachypoda (Cockerell, 1920)
* Lipotriches palavanica (Cockerell, 1915)
* Lipotriches pallidibasis (Cockerell, 1936)
* Lipotriches pallidicincta (Cockerell, 1932)
* Lipotriches pallidiventer (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches panganina (Strand, 1911)
* Lipotriches parca (Kohl, 1906)
* Lipotriches patellifera (Westwood, 1875)
* Lipotriches pennata (Friese, 1924)
* Lipotriches perlucida (Cockerell, 1911)
* Lipotriches petterssoni (Pauly, 1991)
* Lipotriches phanerura (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches phenacura (Cockerell, 1911)
* Lipotriches philippinensis (Cockerell, 1915)
* Lipotriches picardi (Gribodo, 1894)
* Lipotriches pilipes (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches platycephala (Cockerell, 1917)
* Lipotriches pristis (Vachal, 1903)
* Lipotriches pseudohalictella (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches pulchricornis (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches pulchriventris (Cameron, 1897)
* Lipotriches purnongensis (Cockerell, 1913)
* Lipotriches quartinae (Gribodo, 1884)
* Lipotriches raialii (Pauly, 2001)
* Lipotriches rainandriamampandryi (Pauly, 2001)
* Lipotriches ranomafanae (Pauly, 2001)
* Lipotriches reginae (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches regis (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches reichardia (Strand, 1911)
* Lipotriches rubella (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches rufipes (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches rufocognita (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches rugicollis (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches rustica (Westwood, 1875)
* Lipotriches ruwenzorica (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches sanguinolenta (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches sansibarica (Strand, 1912)
* Lipotriches satelles (Cockerell, 1912)
* Lipotriches saussurei (Friese, 1902)
* Lipotriches schroederi (Strand, 1914)
* Lipotriches scutellata (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches semiaurea (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches semihirta (Cockerell, 1932)
* Lipotriches semipallida (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches senegalicola (Strand, 1912)
* Lipotriches setulosa (Benoist, 1962)
* Lipotriches shanganiensis (Cockerell, 1935)
* Lipotriches sicheli (Vachal, 1897)
* Lipotriches sikorai (Pauly, 1991)
* Lipotriches sjoestedti (Friese, 1909)
* Lipotriches smaragdula (Pauly, 1984)
* Lipotriches speciosana (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches speculina (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches sphecodoides (Pauly, 1991)
* Lipotriches spinulifera (Cockerell, 1933)
* Lipotriches stalkeri (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches stordyi (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches subarmata (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches subaustralica (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches sublucens (Cockerell, 1939)
* Lipotriches submoerens (Cockerell, 1914)
* Lipotriches subnitida (Benoist, 1964)
* Lipotriches swalei (Cockerell, 1939)
* Lipotriches tampoloensis (Pauly, 1991)
* Lipotriches tanganyicensis (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches tenuihirta (Cockerell, 1905)
* Lipotriches testacea (Strand, 1913)
* Lipotriches testaceipes (Friese, 1924)
* Lipotriches tetraloniformis (Strand, 1912)
* Lipotriches thor (Cockerell, 1930)
* Lipotriches torrida (Smith, 1879)
* Lipotriches tridentata (Smith, 1875)
* Lipotriches triodonta (Kohl, 1906)
* Lipotriches tristemmae (Pauly, 2001)
* Lipotriches trochanterica (Friese, 1908)
* Lipotriches tuckeri (Friese, 1930)
* Lipotriches tulearensis (Benoist, 1962)
* Lipotriches turneri (Friese, 1924)
* Lipotriches ulongensis (Cockerell, 1929)
* Lipotriches umbiloensis (Cockerell, 1916)
* Lipotriches ustula (Cockerell, 1911)
* Lipotriches vicina (Stadelmann, 1897)
* Lipotriches viciniformis (Cockerell, 1939)
* Lipotriches victoriae (Cockerell, 1910)
* Lipotriches voeltzkowi (Friese, 1907)
* Lipotriches vulpina (Gerstäcker, 1857)
* Lipotriches welwitschi (Cockerell, 1908)
* Lipotriches whitfieldi (Cockerell, 1942)
* Lipotriches willeyi (Cameron, 1905)
* Lipotriches williamsi (Cockerell, 1930)
* Lipotriches yapiensis (Cockerell, 1943)
* Lipotriches yasumatsui (Hirashima, 1961)
* Lipotriches yunnanensis (He & Wu, 1985)
* Lipotriches zuala (Strand, 1911)