Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, face Click on map for details about points. IDnature guides Bee species Perdita female Perdita male Links Hosts 80x5 - 240x3 - 240x4 - 320x1 - 320x2 - 320x3 - 640x1 - 640x2 Set display option above. Click on images to enlarge. Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, side Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, top Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, wing Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, female, face Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, female, side Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, female, top Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, female, wing Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, male, face Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, male, side Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, male, top Smithsonian Institution, Entomology Department · 9 Perdita bruneri, male, wing 12 thumbnails  •  slide show Identification Extracted from: Crawford J.C. (1899). Three New Species of Bees. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Vol. 10 no. 6 Male. Head and thorax green, finely roughened, metathorax sometimes more bluish.: face up to antennre, including labrum and mandibles, except tips, lateral face-marks running to a point about half way between point of insertion of antennre and summit of eyes; narrow inferior orbits half way up, scape in front, large spot on tubercles, connected with a spot on prothorax and also with coxal cavity, spot on tegulae, all of legs except black stripe on rear of anterior and intermediate femora and tibire and basal half of all coxre, yellow; black stripes on front and rear of hind femora connected below, hind tibire black, with a yellow stripe in front, flagellum reddish testaceous below; wings milky hyaline, nervures pallid, costa, radius more or less and margin of stigma brownish; tegulce pallid; pubescence of head and thorax long, white, abundant all pleura and cheeks, tarsi yellowish testaceolls, hind tarsi dark; abdomen brownish black, segments 1-5 with yellow bands narrowly interfllpted medially; that on 5 sometimes reduced to tW0 spots; venter yellow, tip dark Length, 5.5 to 6 mm Female. Similar to male in colour, the marking cream coloured and confined to following; clypeus, except two dots and two longitudinal lines parenthesis shaped, not reaching base of clypeus or these connected with the dots or broken medially, supraclypeal mark two dots, or these Names Scientific source: Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist, Ascher and Pickering. Integrated Taxonomic Information System Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation Hosts · map Family Scientific name @ source (records) Asteraceae   Chrysopsis @ AMNH_BEE (19) Grindelia squarrosa @ AMNH_BEE (103); UCRC_ENT (3) Grindelia @ UCRC_ENT (31) Helianthus annuus @ AMNH_BEE (1) Helianthus petiolaris @ AMNH_BEE (2) Helianthus x @ AMNH_BEE (1) Heterotheca @ UCRC_ENT (3) Solidago canadensis @ AMNH_BEE (3) Solidago rigida @ AMNH_BEE (1) Solidago @ UCRC_ENT (1) Symphyotrichum ericoides @ AMNH_BEE (1) Fabaceae   Melilotus officinalis @ AMNH_BEE (1) Polygonaceae   Eriogonum annuum @ AMNH_BEE (4) go to Discover Life's Facebook group Updated: 2024-04-24 17:20:33 gmt Discover Life | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation