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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina) » Subgenus Zadontomerus (Ceratina Subgenus Zadontomerus)
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Ceratina acantha or other Zadontomerus? - Ceratina
Copyright © 2015 Susan Hare

Ceratina acantha or other Zadontomerus? - Ceratina
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 26, 2015
Size: >5mm
Small bee resembles Ceratina acantha? I attempted the Discover Life ID tree and selected (hopefully correctly) Acute femoral tooth shape & preoccipital ridge without a carina. The white markings on the face seemed similar to acantha. Discrepancies: bronze coloring, white hair on legs, brown tarsus. These discrepancies makes me wonder if this is a Ceratina nanula. In one image I didn't upload, you can see the structure that connects the head to the thorax (I'd call it a neck). It is white in color.
Captured in urban garden on Erigeron glacus.

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Contributed by Susan Hare on 26 September, 2015 - 9:49pm
Last updated 27 September, 2015 - 1:33am

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