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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) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Eucera » Subgenus Synhalonia (Eucera Subgenus Synhalonia)

Subgenus Synhalonia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Works Cited
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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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Eucerini (Longhorn Bees)
Genus Eucera
No Taxon Subgenus Synhalonia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Three species were recently removed to a new genus Protohalonia.
Explanation of Names
Synhalonia Patton 1879
Numbers
51 spp. in our area, 100 total(1)
Identification
All-black, very long antennae (males) and projecting clypeus are noteworthy (cf. Melissodes)
Range
holarctic(1)
Season
Most fly exclusively in the spring
Food
Many visit legumes
Print References
(2)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.A contribution to the systematics of North American species of Synhalonia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
Timberlake P.H. 1969. UC Pub. Entomol. 57: 1‒76.
Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 4 April, 2008 - 8:31am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 3:27pm

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