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Bee species

Overview

Reprinted from: Cresson, E.T., 1878. Descriptions of new North American Hymenoptera in the collection of the American Entomological Society. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc.7:70. Piceous, smooth and shining, rather thinly clothed with a short whitish pubescence, sparsely punctured; head a little wider than thorax, anterior orbits with a deep longitudinal groove, clypeus with a few coarse punctures, tips of mandibles reddish; antenna short, flagel lum brown; metathorax yqtv short, transverse rounded on the sides; tagala pale testaceous ; wings hyaline, nervures brown; marginal cell about a* long as first submarginal, obliquely truncate at tip, appendiculate, second sub marginal about half the length of the first, narrowed one-half towards mar ginal; legs clothed with pale pubescence, that on posterior tibia long and loose; abdomen ovate, depressed, apical margin of segments obscurely testa ceous, anal fimbria short and pale; venter broadly fase i a te with testaceous. Length .35 inch. Hab.?Texas, (Heiligbrodt). Three specimens.

Names

Scientific source:

Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist, Ascher and Pickering. Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Hosts · map Family Scientific name @ source (records) Cactaceae   Echinocereus fendleri @ BBSL (1) Opuntia @ UCRC_ENT (69) _   Withheld @ BBSL__CAVE (18)

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