{{Short description|Genus of bees}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Callohesma calliopsiformis.jpg | image_caption = ''Callohesma calliopsiformis'' | taxon = Callohesma | authority = Michener, 1965<ref>{{cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Callohesma |url=https://itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=634048#null |website=itis.gov |access-date=8 February 2026}}</ref> }}
'''''Callohesma''''' is a genus of plasterer bees in the subfamily Euryglossinae. It was described, as a subgenus of ''Euryglossa'', by American entomologist Charles Duncan Michener in 1965,<ref name="michener1965">{{cite journal|last1= Michener |first1=CD|last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |date=1965 |url= |title= A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions |access-date= |journal= Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |series= |volume=130 |issue= |pages=1–362 |doi= |doi-access= }}</ref> and revised by Australian entomologist Elizabeth Exley in 1974.<ref name="exley1974">{{cite journal|last1= Exley |first1=EM|last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |date=1974|url= |title= Revision of the subgenus Callohesma Michener (Apoidea: Colletidae) |access-date= |journal= Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series|volume=26|issue=|pages=1–58 |doi= |doi-access= }}</ref> It is endemic to Australia.<ref name="inaturalist-Callohesma">{{cite web |title=Genus Callohesma |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/602737-Callohesma |website=iNaturalist |access-date=8 February 2026 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="exley">{{cite journal |last1=Exley |first1=Elizabeth M. |title=Revision of the genus Dasyhesma Michener (Apoidea: Colletidae: Euryglossinae) |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=2004 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=129 |doi=10.18195/issn.0312-3162.22(2).2004.129-146 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/226871 |access-date=8 February 2026}}</ref>
==Species== As of 2026 the genus contained some 34 described species:<ref name="afd2">{{cite web |url= https://www.biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Callohesma/names |title= Names List for Callohesma Michener, 1965 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2026|website= Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia |access-date= 2026-02-16}}</ref> {{div col|colwidth=266px}} *''Callohesma albiceris'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma aurantifera'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1912)}} *''Callohesma aureopicta'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1929)}} *''Callohesma calliopsella'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1910)}} *''Callohesma calliopsiformis'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1905)}} *''Callohesma campbelli'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1929)}} *''Callohesma chlora'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma coolgardensis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma eustonensis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma euxantha'' {{Au|(Perkins, 1912)}} *''Callohesma flava'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma flavopicta'' {{Au|(Smith, 1879)}} *''Callohesma geminata'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1911)}} *''Callohesma karratha'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma lacteipennis'' {{Au|(Michener, 1965)}} *''Callohesma lucida'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma matthewsi'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma megachlora'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma nigripicta'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma occidentalis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma ornatula'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1929)}} *''Callohesma pedalis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma picta'' {{Au|(Smith, 1854)}} *''Callohesma quadrimaculata'' {{Au|(Smith, 1879)}} *''Callohesma queenslandensis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma recta'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma rieki'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma setula'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma sinapipes'' {{Au|(Cockerell, 1910)}} *''Callohesma skermani'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma splendens'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} *''Callohesma sulphurea'' {{Au|(Michener, 1965)}} *''Callohesma tibialis'' {{Au|(Cardale, 1993)}} *''Callohesma townsvillensis'' {{Au|(Exley, 1974)}} {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Callohesma Category:Bee genera Category:Bees of Australia Category:Taxa named by Charles Duncan Michener
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