# Thyreus

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This article is about the insect. For the character from Greek mythology, see [Thyreus (mythology)](/source/Thyreus_(mythology)).

***Thyreus*** is an Old World genus of bees, one of many that are commonly known as [cuckoo bees](/source/Cuckoo_bee), or cloak-and-dagger bees, and are [kleptoparasites](/source/Kleptoparasite) of other species of bees, mostly in the genus *[Amegilla](/source/Amegilla)*. They all have strongly contrasting patterns of coloration – three species from the Sydney region, *[Thyreus nitidulus](/source/Thyreus_nitidulus)*, *[T. lugubris](/source/Thyreus_lugubris)*, and *[T. caeruleopunctatus](/source/Thyreus_caeruleopunctatus)* are bright blue and black.

## Species

- *[Thyreus abdominalis](/source/Thyreus_abdominalis)* ([Friese](/source/Heinrich_Friese), 1905)
- *[Thyreus abyssinicus](/source/Thyreus_abyssinicus)* ([Radoszkowski](/source/Oktawiusz_Radoszkowski), 1873)
- *[Thyreus affinis](/source/Thyreus_affinis)* ([Morawitz](/source/Ferdinand_Morawitz), 1874)
- *[Thyreus africana](/source/Thyreus_africana)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus aistleitneri](/source/Thyreus_aistleitneri)* [Straka](/source/Jakub_Straka_(entomologist)) & [Engel](/source/Michael_S._Engel), 2012
- *[Thyreus albolateralis](/source/Thyreus_albolateralis)* ([Cockerell](/source/Theodore_Dru_Alison_Cockerell), 1919)
- *[Thyreus albomaculatus](/source/Thyreus_albomaculatus)* ([De Geer](/source/Charles_De_Geer), 1778)
- *[Thyreus alfkeni](/source/Thyreus_alfkeni)* ([Brauns](/source/Hans_Brauns), 1909)
- *[Thyreus altaicus](/source/Thyreus_altaicus)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus axillaris](/source/Thyreus_axillaris)* ([Vachal](/source/Joseph_Vachal), 1903)
- *[Thyreus batelkai](/source/Thyreus_batelkai)* Straka & Engel, 2012
- *[Thyreus bimaculatus](/source/Thyreus_bimaculatus)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus bouyssoui](/source/Thyreus_bouyssoui)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus brachyaspis](/source/Thyreus_brachyaspis)* (Cockerell, 1936)
- *[Thyreus caeruleopunctatus](/source/Thyreus_caeruleopunctatus)* ([Blanchard](/source/%C3%89mile_Blanchard), 1840)
- *[Thyreus calceatus](/source/Thyreus_calceatus)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus callurus](/source/Thyreus_callurus)* (Cockerell, 1919)
- *[Thyreus calophanes](/source/Thyreus_calophanes)* [Lieftinck](/source/Maurits_Lieftinck), 1962
- *[Thyreus castalius](/source/Thyreus_castalius)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus centrimacula](/source/Thyreus_centrimacula)* (Pérez, 1905)
- *[Thyreus ceylonicus](/source/Thyreus_ceylonicus)* (Friese, 1905)
- *[Thyreus chinensis](/source/Thyreus_chinensis)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus cyathiger](/source/Thyreus_cyathiger)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus decorus](/source/Thyreus_decorus)* ([Smith](/source/Andrew_Smith_(zoologist)), 1852)
- *[Thyreus delumbatus](/source/Thyreus_delumbatus)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus denolii](/source/Thyreus_denolii)* Straka & Engel, 2012
- *[Thyreus elegans](/source/Thyreus_elegans)* (Morawitz, 1878)
- *[Thyreus empeyi](/source/Thyreus_empeyi)* [Eardley](/source/Connal_D._Eardley), 1991
- *[Thyreus erythraeensis](/source/Thyreus_erythraeensis)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus fallibilis](/source/Thyreus_fallibilis)* ([Kohl](/source/Franz_Friedrich_Kohl), 1906)
- *[Thyreus forchhammeri](/source/Thyreus_forchhammeri)* Eardley, 1991
- *[Thyreus formosanus](/source/Thyreus_formosanus)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus fortissimus](/source/Thyreus_fortissimus)* (Cockerell & [Mackie](/source/Alice_Mackie), 1933)
- *[Thyreus frieseanus](/source/Thyreus_frieseanus)* (Cockerell, 1905)
- *[Thyreus gambiensis](/source/Thyreus_gambiensis)* (Cockerell & Mackie, 1933)
- *[Thyreus garouensis](/source/Thyreus_garouensis)* Engel, 2014
- *[Thyreus grahami](/source/Thyreus_grahami)* (Cockerell, 1910)
- *[Thyreus hellenicus](/source/Thyreus_hellenicus)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus himalayensis](/source/Thyreus_himalayensis)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus hirtus](/source/Thyreus_hirtus)* ([de Beaumont|Jacques de Beaumont|de Beaumont](/source/Jacques_de_Beaumont), 1940)
- *[Thyreus histrio](/source/Thyreus_histrio)* ([Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1775)
- *[Thyreus histrionicus](/source/Thyreus_histrionicus)* ([Illiger](/source/Johann_Karl_Wilhelm_Illiger), 1806)
- *[Thyreus hohmanni](/source/Thyreus_hohmanni)* Schwarz, 1993
- *[Thyreus hyalinatus](/source/Thyreus_hyalinatus)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus illudens](/source/Thyreus_illudens)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus impexus](/source/Thyreus_impexus)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus incultus](/source/Thyreus_incultus)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus insignis](/source/Thyreus_insignis)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus insolitus](/source/Thyreus_insolitus)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus interruptus](/source/Thyreus_interruptus)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus irena](/source/Thyreus_irena)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus janasivius](/source/Thyreus_janasivius)* (Sivik, 1957)
- *[Thyreus kilimandjaricus](/source/Thyreus_kilimandjaricus)* ([Strand](/source/Embrik_Strand), 1911)
- *[Thyreus lieftincki](/source/Thyreus_lieftincki)* Rozen, 1969
- *[Thyreus lugubris](/source/Thyreus_lugubris)* (Smith, 1879)
- *[Thyreus luzonensis](/source/Thyreus_luzonensis)* (Cockerell, 1910)
- *[Thyreus macleayi](/source/Thyreus_macleayi)* (Cockerell, 1907)
- *[Thyreus maculiscutis](/source/Thyreus_maculiscutis)* (Cameron, 1905)
- *[Thyreus massuri](/source/Thyreus_massuri)* (Radoszkowski, 1893)
- *[Thyreus medius](/source/Thyreus_medius)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus meripes](/source/Thyreus_meripes)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus neavei](/source/Thyreus_neavei)* (Cockerell, 1933)
- *[Thyreus nigroventralis](/source/Thyreus_nigroventralis)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus niloticus](/source/Thyreus_niloticus)* (Cockerell, 1937)
- *[Thyreus nitidulus](/source/Thyreus_nitidulus)* (Fabricius, 1804)
- *[Thyreus novaehollandiae](/source/Thyreus_novaehollandiae)* ([Lepeletier](/source/Am%C3%A9d%C3%A9e_Louis_Michel_le_Peletier,_comte_de_Saint-Fargeau), 1841)
- *[Thyreus nubicus](/source/Thyreus_nubicus)* (Lepeletier, 1841)
- *[Thyreus orbatus](/source/Thyreus_orbatus)* (Lepeletier, 1841)
- *[Thyreus oxaspis](/source/Thyreus_oxaspis)* (Cockerell, 1936)
- *[Thyreus parthenope](/source/Thyreus_parthenope)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus pica](/source/Thyreus_pica)* (Strand, 1921)
- *[Thyreus picaron](/source/Thyreus_picaron)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus picicornis](/source/Thyreus_picicornis)* (Morawitz, 1875)
- *[Thyreus pictus](/source/Thyreus_pictus)* (Smith, 1854)
- *[Thyreus plumifer](/source/Thyreus_plumifer)* (Brauns, 1909)
- *[Thyreus praestans](/source/Thyreus_praestans)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus praevalens](/source/Thyreus_praevalens)* (Kohl, 1905)
- *[Thyreus pretextus](/source/Thyreus_pretextus)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus priesneri](/source/Thyreus_priesneri)* Lieftinck, 1968
- *[Thyreus proximus](/source/Thyreus_proximus)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus quadrimaculatus](/source/Thyreus_quadrimaculatus)* (Radoszkowski, 1883)
- *[Thyreus quinquefasciatus](/source/Thyreus_quinquefasciatus)* (Smith, 1879)
- *[Thyreus ramosellus](/source/Thyreus_ramosellus)* (Cockerell, 1919)
- *[Thyreus ramosus](/source/Thyreus_ramosus)* (Lepeletier, 1841)
- *[Thyreus regalis](/source/Thyreus_regalis)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus rotundatus](/source/Thyreus_rotundatus)* (Friese, 1905)
- *[Thyreus rufitarsus](/source/Thyreus_rufitarsus)* (Rayment, 1931)
- *[Thyreus schwarzi](/source/Thyreus_schwarzi)* Straka & Engel, 2012
- *[Thyreus scotaspis](/source/Thyreus_scotaspis)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus scutellaris](/source/Thyreus_scutellaris)* (Fabricius, 1781)
- *[Thyreus sejuncta](/source/Thyreus_sejuncta)* ([Saussure](/source/Henri_Louis_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_de_Saussure), 1890)
- *[Thyreus shebicus](/source/Thyreus_shebicus)* Engel, 2014
- *[Thyreus sicarius](/source/Thyreus_sicarius)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus smithii](/source/Thyreus_smithii)* ([Dalla Torre](/source/Karl_Wilhelm_von_Dalla_Torre), 1896)
- *[Thyreus somalicus](/source/Thyreus_somalicus)* (Strand, 1911)
- *[Thyreus sphenophorus](/source/Thyreus_sphenophorus)* Lieftinck, 1962
- *[Thyreus splendidulus](/source/Thyreus_splendidulus)* (Lepeletier, 1841)
- *[Thyreus stellifera](/source/Thyreus_stellifera)* (Cockerell, 1936)
- *[Thyreus strandi](/source/Thyreus_strandi)* (Meyer, 1921)
- *[Thyreus surniculus](/source/Thyreus_surniculus)* Lieftinck, 1959
- *[Thyreus takaonis](/source/Thyreus_takaonis)* (Cockerell, 1911)
- *[Thyreus tinctus](/source/Thyreus_tinctus)* (Cockerell, 1905)
- *[Thyreus tricuspis](/source/Thyreus_tricuspis)* (Pérez, 1883)
- *[Thyreus truncatus](/source/Thyreus_truncatus)* (Pérez, 1883)
- *[Thyreus tschoffeni](/source/Thyreus_tschoffeni)* (Vachal, 1903)
- *[Thyreus uniformis](/source/Thyreus_uniformis)* ([W. F. Kirby](/source/William_Forsell_Kirby), 1900)
- *[Thyreus vachali](/source/Thyreus_vachali)* (Friese, 1905)
- *[Thyreus wallacei](/source/Thyreus_wallacei)* (Cockerell, 1905)
- *[Thyreus waroonensis](/source/Thyreus_waroonensis)* (Cockerell, 1913)

## See also

- c. Bee genera

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