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Augochlora pura - female
Copyright © 2008 John R. Maxwell

Augochlora pura - Female
Rancocas Woods, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
May 11, 2008
Size: Maybe around 10 mm?
My nephew found this in a rotten log while searching for Carpenter Ants and Termites. Is this Augochlora pura? I'm not sure how to tell gender, but might guess female.

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Augochlora pura - female Augochlora pura - female
Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 18 May, 2008 - 8:06am
Last updated 30 May, 2008 - 3:57pm

Moved
Moved from Halictinae.
… John R. Maxwell, 30 May, 2008 - 3:56pm

Yours does appear to be
Augochlora pura. Can't say I'm well-practiced at identifying bees, but I think I can handle these metallic ones. Yours is a female - that looks like a scopa on the hind femur. It isn't Augochlo*ropsis, as the tegula (scale at the wing base) is non-metallic and rounded posteriorly (see couplet 7 of the key; Figs 23 & 24). From what I can see in both images, the clypeus appears to be evenly convex in profile and lacking in an extensive, non-metallic apical portion (couplet 8), which points to Augochlora.
… Stephen Luk, 30 May, 2008 - 1:39pm

 
Also
Habitat. Augochlora pura nests under the bark of rotten logs.
… Beatriz Moisset, 30 May, 2008 - 2:18pm

 
Thanks!
Thank you both. Now I have the matching set :-)
… John R. Maxwell, 30 May, 2008 - 3:59pm

 
Right
Forgot to mention that - Thanks Beatriz.
… Stephen Luk, 30 May, 2008 - 2:52pm

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