Protosmia

Protosmia is a genus of subgenus Chelostomopsis in the family Megachilidae. There are more than 30 described species in Protosmia.

==Species== These 31 species belong to the genus Protosmia: Protosmia asensioi Griswold & Parker, 1987 Protosmia burmanica (Bingham, 1897) Protosmia capitata (Schletterer, 1889) Protosmia decipiens (Benoist, 1935) Protosmia devia Tkalcu, 1978 Protosmia exenterata (Pérez, 1896) Protosmia glutinosa (Giraud, 1871) Protosmia hamulifera Griswold, 2013 Protosmia humeralis (Pérez, 1896) Protosmia judaica (Mavromoustakis, 1948) Protosmia limbata (Benoist, 1935) Protosmia longiceps (Friese, 1899) Protosmia luctuosa (Lucas, 1848) Protosmia magnicapitis (Stanek, 1969) Protosmia megaceps (Kohl, 1906) Protosmia minutula (Pérez, 1896) Protosmia monstrosa (Pérez, 1895) Protosmia montana Protosmia octomaculata (Pérez, 1895) Protosmia paradoxa (Friese, 1899) Protosmia pulex (Benoist, 1935) Protosmia querquedula van der Zanden, 1994 Protosmia rubifloris (Cockerell, 1898) Protosmia schwarzi Griswold, 2013 Protosmia sicula (Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895) Protosmia sideritis Tkalcu, 1978 Protosmia stelidoides (Pérez, 1895) Protosmia stigmatica (Pérez, 1895) Protosmia tauricola Popov, 1961 Protosmia tiflensis (Morawitz, 1876) Protosmia trifida Griswold, 2013