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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) » Leafcutter and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Sayapis (Megachile Subgenus Sayapis) » Megachile newberryae

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Copyright © 2009 Lynn Monroe

Megachile sp. female - Megachile newberryae -

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
April 27, 2009
Size: BL ~ 16 mm?

I think this is the dorsal view of the same bee, but there is a chance it is a different bee that was also on Honey Mesquite.

Update: probably the female of # 288365. Both were on the same area of the same Honey Mesquite and the photos were taken sequentially.

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Contributed by Lynn Monroe on 14 June, 2009 - 6:01pm
Last updated 17 December, 2009 - 8:25pm

Moved

Moved from Leaf-cutting and Resin Bees.

… John S. Ascher, 17 December, 2009 - 8:25pm

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looks like a female M. newberryae

subgenus Sayapis

… John S. Ascher, 17 December, 2009 - 8:25pm

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Megachile newberryae female

How wonderful to get this female, photographed in late April on Honey Mesquite and another female photographed on Screwbean Mesquite in late June, http://bugguide.net/node/view/332978, to the same Megachile species! Thank you so much, Dr. Ascher, for all your efforts to identify these Anza-Borrego bees! I am very grateful!

… Lynn Monroe, 17 December, 2009 - 9:21pm

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Megachile

female

… John S. Ascher, 14 June, 2009 - 6:39pm

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Megachile female

It's so interesting that this is the female. We puzzled over whether this was the same bee as #288365. It was the very next slide and seemed pretty similar--but there were differences we attributed to the angle. Now I see how different they are, especially in abdominal shape. Thanks for identifying this female.

… Lynn Monroe, 15 June, 2009 - 11:02am

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slender

so subgenus is either Chelostomoides or Sayapis

… John S. Ascher, 10 November, 2009 - 11:13pm

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Slender Megachile female

Thanks for pointing out that the more slender body build translates to certain subgenera.

… Lynn Monroe, 11 November, 2009 - 8:58am

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