Subspecies Xylocopa virginica virginica

Classification · Explanation of Names

Eastern Carpenter Bee Hovering - Xylocopa virginica - male

What type of Bumble Bee? - Xylocopa virginica

Male Carpenter Bee in Opuntia humifusa flowers - Xylocopa virginica - male

Lilacs and Bee - Xylocopa virginica - female

Carpenter Bee species. - Xylocopa virginica

Fuzzy bee and orange stuff on goldenrod - Xylocopa virginica - female

Eastern Carpenter Bee? - Xylocopa virginica

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)

Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)

Subfamily Xylocopinae (Carpenter Bees)

Genus Xylocopa (Large Carpenter Bees)

Species virginica (Eastern Carpenter Bee)

Subspecies virginica (Xylocopa virginica virginica)

Explanation of Names

Author: Linnaeus, 1771

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 19 October, 2009 - 9:38am

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