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Augochloropsis metallica (Fabricius, 1793) Andrena metallica Fabricius, 1793; Augochlora cuprea_homonym sensu auct in part; Augochlora fervida Smith, 1853; Augochlora (Augochloropsis) cleomis Titus, 1901, synonymy uncertain; Halictus (Augochlora) chorisis Vachal, 1903
Life
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apoidea
Halictidae
Augochloropsis
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Reprinted with permission from: Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141. | Only recently, has Augochlopsis viridula been separated as a subspecies of A. metallica and placed as a separate species. See A. viridula species page and Portman et al. 2022 for more details.
MALE Length 9 mm.; entire body brilliant green; mandibles and labrum black to piceous; clypeus entirely green, punctures rather coarse and close but quite shallow; supraclypeal area shining and largely impunctate over lower half, upper half obscurely and shallowly punctate; face above antennae rather densely rugose and dull; cheeks shining and polished, nearly impunctate below, becoming very minutely and closely punctate or tessellate above; scape and pedicel black, flagellum brownish ferruginous beneath, black above, segment 2 only very slightly exceeding 1st, following segments relatively short; lateral angles of pronotum only slightly produced; scutum somewhat shining, punctures distinct but close medially and posteriorly, becoming densely rugose laterally and anteriorly; scutellum somewhat shining but quite closely punctate, very slightly grooved medially; pleura rather deeply and distinctly punctate below, becoming rugoso-punctate above and anteriorly; dorsal area of propodeum about as broad as metanotum, finely roughened but somewhat shining, lateral faces shining, closely and rather irregularly and finely punctate, posterior face somewhat shining but rather coarsely and closely punctate; tegulae green along inner margin, becoming brownish on outer margin posteriorly, more hyaline anteriorly; wings hyaline, veins and stigma testaceous; tarsi yellowish, legs otherwise green; abdominal terga smooth and shining, terga 1 and 2 bearing apical fimbriae, punctures deep and distinct, rather coarse and well separated on basal tergum, becoming closer and finer on each successive more apical tergum, depressed apical margins more sparsely and minutely punctate; pubescence largely pale, short and suberect; sterna 1-3 green, the remaining plates dark, 4 broadly incurved, with a slender, median, acute projection, 6 nearly straight apically; ventral inner lobe at base of gonostyli broadly rounded and rather short, the subapical dorsal lobe extremely broad and expansive, 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 In one or more of its forms, cuprea ranges from Ontario and the New England states to Florida, west to South Dakota, Arizona and through Mexico to Panama, March to November in the United States. FLOWER RECORDS Apocynum, Aralia, Aronia, Aster, Bidens, Brassica, Ceanothus, Chrysanthemum, Cornus, Eryngium, Eupatorium, Fragaria, Gerardia, Haplopappus, Hydrangea, Hypericum, hex, Melilotus, Prunus, Rhus, Rubus and Salix. Robertson (1929) records this species (as Augochlora fervida and A. viridula) in the following additional genera: Arabis, Asclepias, Blephilia, Cacalia, Cassia, Caulophyllum, Celastrus, Cercis, Cicuta, Circaea, Claytonia, Coreopsis, Cornus, Crataegus, Diospyros, Dodecatheon, Erigenia, Geranium, Gnaphalium, Gonolobus, Hydrophyllum, Lepachys Lippia, Lycopus, Malva, Nepeta Osmorrhiza, Parthenium, Petalostemum, Polygonum, Polytaenia, Prunus, Pycnanthemum, Rhammus, Ribes, Rosa, Sagittaria, Sanicula, Scrophularia, Smilacina, Solidago, Specularia, Symphoricarpus, Taenidia, Thaspium, Tilia, Trifolium, Verbascum, Verbena, Veronica, Zanthoxyllum and Zizia.
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Extracted from Augochloropsis of ENA by Arduser, M. (2009). | Female T2 surface weakly tessellate between the small, close punctures; apical fringe hairs of T2 distinctly different than hairs elsewhere on apical area of tergite, i.e., somewhat flattened and slightly broadened at the base, arranged closely together appearing like the teeth of a comb along the apical margin of the tergite.
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Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.
Portman, Z. M., M. Arduser, I. G. Lane, and D. P. Cariveau. 2022. A review of the Augochloropsis (Hymenoptera: Halictinae) and keys to the shiny green Halictinae of the midwestern United State. ZooKeys 1139:103-152. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1130.86413.
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