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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) » Digger Bees (Anthophorini) » Digger Bees (Anthophora) » Subgenus Anthophoroides (Anthophora Subgenus Anthophoroides) » California Digger Bee (Anthophora californica)

Species Anthophora californica - California Digger Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References

Anthophora californica? - Anthophora californica - male

Long-tongued (Anthophora) Bee - Anthophora californica - male

Bee or fly on yerba santa with enlargement - Anthophora californica

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 Anthophorini (Digger Bees)

Genus Anthophora (Digger Bees)

No Taxon (Subgenus Anthophoroides)

Species californica (California Digger Bee)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Anthophora tarsata_homonym Sichel, 1869

Anthophora quinquefasciata Provancher, 1895

Anthophora tarsata subtarsata Cockerell, 1904

Anthophora texana Cresson, 1872

Podalirius doursii Dalla Torre, 1896

Anthophora erysimi Cockerell, 1937

Anthophora californica texana Cresson, 1872

Anthophora californica albomarginata Timberlake, 1937

Explanation of Names

Anthophora californica Cresson, 1869

Identification

White metasomal bands are integumental (vs. white hair bands in A. urbana)

Eye color in life usually greenish (vs. blue-gray in A. urbana)

Male with hind tibia red and modified, with a projection (vs. unmodified and whitish in color in A. urbana)

Scutum with hairs usually ran with fewer dark hairs intermixed than in A. urbana

In the Central USA see also the larger Anthophora walshii, and in western mountains compare with the large male of A. montana

Range

sw US to C. Amer. - Map (Discover Life)

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

Wild Bees of the NBC

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 12 November, 2008 - 10:20pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 19 May, 2021 - 10:17pm

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