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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees (Megachilini) » Sharptail Bees (Coelioxys)
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Hairy eyed bee - Coelioxys - male
Copyright © 2009 Tim Lethbridge

Hairy eyed bee - Coelioxys - Male
Lake Placid - Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida, USA
October 26, 2008
The most distinctive thing I noted about this bee was the small hairs covering its eyes.

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Hairy eyed bee - Coelioxys - male Hairy eyed bee - Coelioxys
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Contributed by Tim Lethbridge on 30 March, 2009 - 9:46pm
Last updated 1 April, 2009 - 9:36pm

Coelioxys
male
… John S. Ascher, 1 April, 2009 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks!
… Tim Lethbridge, 1 April, 2009 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

 
perhaps C. octodentata
note red legs
… John S. Ascher, 15 March, 2010 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

Related to Coelioxys.
This is a male cuckoo bee in the Megachilidae family. It may be Coelioxys, but I don't think so. There is at least one related genus it might be in, but I can't recall the name. Arg!
… Eric R. Eaton, 31 March, 2009 - 1:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you . . .
I will leave it in ID Request and maybe it will come to you! :-)
… Tim Lethbridge, 1 April, 2009 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

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