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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 » Blood Bees (Sphecodes) » Cyclops Cuckoo Sweat Bee (Sphecodes heraclei)

Species Sphecodes heraclei - Cyclops Cuckoo Sweat Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Lasioglossum? - Sphecodes heraclei - female Bee? - Sphecodes heraclei - male Dialictus? - Sphecodes heraclei Dialictus? - Sphecodes heraclei Sphecodes sp ? - Sphecodes heraclei Male Sphecodes bee - Sphecodes heraclei - male Sphecodes male - Sphecodes heraclei - male Male Sphecodes bee - Sphecodes heraclei - male
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 Sphecodes (Blood Bees)
Species heraclei (Cyclops Cuckoo Sweat Bee)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sphecodes heraclei ignitus Cockerell, 1922, valid subspecies
Explanation of Names
Sphecodes heraclei Robertson, 1897
Size
Female: Length 7mm(1)
Male: Length 7mm(1)
Range
New Hampshire to southern Ontario, to Texas, east to Florida.
Global Map
Season
March to November
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.
Internet References
Discover Life
iNaturalist
GBIF
ITIS
Works Cited
1.Bees of the eastern United States
Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 20 March, 2008 - 10:13pm
Additional contributions by hg, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 28 October, 2020 - 11:52am

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