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Augochloropsis anonyma (Cockerell, 1922)
Augochlora anonyma Cockerell, 1922

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Subgenus: Paraugochloropsis

Augochloropsis anonyma, -back 2012-07-09-170344
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Augochloropsis anonyma, -back 2012-07-09-170344

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Augochloropsis anonyma, side 2012-07-09-17.19.40
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Augochloropsis anonyma, side 2012-07-09-17.19.40
Augochloropsis anonyma, male, side
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Augochloropsis anonyma, male, side

Augochloropsis anonyma, male, top
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Augochloropsis anonyma, male, top
Augochloropsis anonyma, male, wing
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Augochloropsis anonyma, male, wing

Augochloropsis anonyma, M, side, Florida, Miami-Dade County
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Augochloropsis anonyma, M, side, Florida, Miami-Dade County
Augochloropsis anonyma, -face 2012-07-09-17.11.06
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Augochloropsis anonyma, -face 2012-07-09-17.11.06

Augochloropsis anonyma, M, back, Florida, Miami-Dade County
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Augochloropsis anonyma, M, back, Florida, Miami-Dade County
Augochloropsis anonyma, M, face, Florida, Miami-Dade County
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Augochloropsis anonyma, M, face, Florida, Miami-Dade County

Augochloropsis anonyma, M, back, Florida, Miami-Dade County
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Augochloropsis anonyma, M, back, Florida, Miami-Dade County
Augochloropsis anonyma, propodeum
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Augochloropsis anonyma, propodeum

Augochloropsis anonyma, female, thorax
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Augochloropsis anonyma, female, thorax
Augochloropsis anonyma, female, terga
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Augochloropsis anonyma, female, terga

Augochloropsis anonyma, female, pronotal carina
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Augochloropsis anonyma, female, pronotal carina
Augochloropsis anonyma, female, terga top
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Augochloropsis anonyma, female, terga top
Overview
Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.

FEMALE—Length 8 mm.; entire body brilliant blue, purple or green; mandibles piceous, tinged with green basally; clypeus shining, quite coarsely and closely punctate, very narrowly darkened apically at center; supraclypeal area shining and nearly impunctate over lower portion, upper portion obscurely roughened; face above antennae rather finely rugosopunctate; cheeks shining, nearly impunctate below, becoming finely tessellate above; pubescence of vertex and dorsum of thorax largely fuscous, head and thorax otherwise whitish pubescent laterally and below; scutum with rather close but distinct punctures near center posteriorly, becoming densely crowded or finely rugose laterally and anteriorly; scutellum somewhat shining on each side where the punctures are slightly separated, otherwise very closely punctate; pleura very finely rugose; dorsal area of propodeum much narrower than metanotum, smooth and somewhat shining, lateral faces smooth, with sparse, scattered punctures, posterior face also shining, with scattered, irregular and rather fine punctures; legs largely greenish, only the more apical tarsal segments and the entire front tarsus dark; tegulae largely blue green, very minutely but rather closely punctate along inner side and posteriorly, the outer anterior portion narrowly brownish-hyaline; wings lightly infuscated, veins and stigma brownish-testaceous; abdominal terga smooth and shining, punctures exceedingly minute, well separated but hardly sparse on the more basal terga, entirely lacking apical fimbriae, pubescence entirely pale on basal tergum, becoming more or less intermixed with fuscous on discs of 2nd and following segments, apical margins only very slightly impressed, with punctures somewhat closer and finer than on discs.

MALE—Length 8 mm.; entire body brilliant blue, green or purple; mandibles and labrum black to piceous; clypeus somewhat shining above, punctures shallow but coarse and close over most of disc; supraclypeal area shining and nearly impunctate over lower half, upper half somewhat roughened; face above antennae densely and rather finely rugosopunctate; cheeks below shining, with only a few scattered, minute and obscure punctures, becoming minutely and very closely punctate or tessellate above; antennae entirely dark, very short, segments of flagellum hardly longer than broad; pubescence of head and thorax pale ochraceous, tinged with fuscous dorsally, becoming white laterally and below; scutum with distinct but close and rather deep punctures medially, becoming densely and finely rugoso-punctate laterally; scutellum somewhat shining between the scattered but rather coarse and close punctures; pleura closely and rather coarsely and deeply punctate, becoming more rugose or reticulate anteriorly; dorsal area of propodeum very much shorter than metanotum, smooth and shining, lateral faces shining, finely and rather closely and shallowly punctate, posterior face rather dull, coarsely rugoso-punctate; tegulae narrowly green or blue along inner side, outer margin becoming testaceous-hyaline; wings lightly infuscated, veins and stigma testaceous; all tarsi yellowish, legs otherwise green; abdominal terga smooth and shining, with very fine but deep and distinct, evenly distributed and rather close punctures, without apical fimbriae, apical margins only slightly impressed, with punctures not greatly different from the discs; basal tergum entirely pale pubescent, the light pubescence of discs of the following terga more or less intermixed with subappressed fuscous hairs; sterna 1-3 metallic, the following sterna piceous, 4 often hidden by 3, apical margin broadly incurved, with a very small median acute projection, 6 with a very slight median incision; ventral inner lobe at base of gonostyli triangularly acute, the subapical dorsal lobe broad and expansive, acute apically, covering tips of penis valves, apex of gonostyli slightly excavated, bearing numerous rather short setae; volsellae obscure; penis valves deeply excavated dorsally toward base.

DISTRIBUTION — Coastal Plain of North Carolina to Florida, April to September in North Carolina, throughout the year in Southern Florida.

FLOWER RECORDS—Baccharis, Bidens, Cirsium, Erigeron, Helenium, Hypericum, hex, Linaria, Melilotus, Metopium, Ocimum, Polygonum, Pycnanthemum, Rhus, Rubus and Trifolium.


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FamilyScientific name @ source (records)
Lamiaceae  Ocimum basilicum @ BBSL (1)
Polygonaceae  Polygonum hydropiperoides @ AMNH_BEE (5)
Solanaceae  Solanum nigrum @ BBSL (1)
Theaceae  Camellia sp @ BBSL (1)
Verbenaceae  Lippia nodiflora @ BBSL (1)

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