Glossa, Skopelos, a village in the island of Skopelos in the Northern Sporades
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Glossa Ordinaria, a medieval scholarly Bible in which the text is surrounded by learned commentary
Traditionally, this family is believed to be likely the most "primitive" among extant bees, based primarily on the similarities of their mouthparts (the unique possession among bees of a bilobed glossa) to those of Crabronidae (the putative ancestors of bees), but recent molecular studies have disproved this hypothesis, placing Melittidae (sensu lato) as the basal group of bees.
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Les Saqueboutiers du Toulouse, Dominique Vellard, Glossa