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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Striped Sweat Bees (Agapostemon) » Subgenus Agapostemon (Agapostemon Subgenus Agapostemon) » Agapostemon tyleri

Species Agapostemon tyleri

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References

Agapostemon sp? - Agapostemon tyleri - female

Agapostemon - Agapostemon tyleri - female

Female, Agapostemon - Agapostemon tyleri

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)

Family Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)

Subfamily Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)

Tribe Halictini

Genus Agapostemon (Striped Sweat Bees)

No Taxon (Subgenus Agapostemon)

Species tyleri (Agapostemon tyleri)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Agapostemon martini Cockerell, 1927

Explanation of Names

Agapostemon (Agapostemon) tyleri Cockerell, 1917

Range

Western Texas to Southern Arizona south to central Mexico.

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Habitat

Desert

Season

January; April through October

Food

Visits flowers from several families. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Print References

Roberts, R.B. (1972). Revision of the bee genus Agapostemon (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 49(9):437-590. (Full Text)

Roberts, R.B. (1973). Bees of northwestern America: Agapostemon (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Technical Bulletin 125: 1–23. (Full Text)

Internet References

Discover Life

iNaturalist

ITIS

Moure's Bee Catalogue

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 8 October, 2007 - 5:09pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, JohnMaxwell22, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 12:27pm

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