title: Protosmia
text: # 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
  