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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Megachilinae » Osmiini » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Osmia (Osmia Subgenus Osmia) » Blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria) » Osmia lignaria propinqua

Subspecies Osmia lignaria propinqua

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Is this the male Orchard bee Osmia lignaria - Osmia lignaria Unknown Osmia sp. - Osmia lignaria - female Megachilidae ?? - Osmia lignaria - male Is this an Osmia lignaria. - Osmia lignaria Osmia lignaria propinqua - Osmia lignaria - female Orchard Bee - Osmia lignaria - male Megachilidae 01b - Osmia lignaria - female Blue Orchard Bee - Osmia lignaria propinqua - Osmia lignaria - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Megachilidae (Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae
Tribe Osmiini
Genus Osmia (Mason Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Osmia)
Species lignaria (Blue orchard bee)
Subspecies propinqua (Osmia lignaria propinqua)
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 18 April, 2007 - 7:56pm

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