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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 » Melittid Bees (Melittidae) » Dasypodainae » Hesperapini » Hesperapis » Subgenus Panurgomia (Hesperapis Subgenus Panurgomia) » Hesperapis regularis
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Hesperapis regularis - Hesperapis regularis - male
Copyright © 2008 Hartmut Wisch

Hesperapis regularis - Hesperapis regularis - Male
Hastings Reserve, Monterey County, California, USA
June 6, 2008
In Calochortus sp.
Wing venation and general appearance makes me think this is a Hesperapis.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 20 September, 2008 - 2:19am
Last updated 25 September, 2008 - 11:19pm

plant in photograph
Checked the Hastings Reserve web site and find Large-flowered Star Tulip (Calochortus uniflorus) is known from the site, and that is what the plant in the photograph appears to be. One of the easier members of this genus for the garden.
… Jeffrey Caldwell, 31 March, 2020 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

yes, a Hesperapis male
habitat?

size?

nearby flowers?
… John S. Ascher, 20 September, 2008 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John -
habitat: small grassy area at edge of Oak woodland.

size: ~ 9 mm

nearby flowers: Clarkia purpurea, Phacelia imbricata; Clarkia unguiculata perhaps 150 meters away.

Could this be H. regularis? I photographed a female ~ 20 minutes earlier in C. unguiculata.
… Hartmut Wisch, 21 September, 2008 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

 
most likely H. regularis
being relatively large and associated with Clarkia
… John S. Ascher, 24 September, 2008 - 10:22am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John,
for the follow-up.
… Hartmut Wisch, 24 September, 2008 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

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