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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Lasioglossum » Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees (Lasioglossum Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees) » Lasioglossum tarponense

Species Lasioglossum tarponense

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Very small bee - Lasioglossum tarponense - female

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 Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)

Subfamily Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)

Tribe Halictini

Genus Lasioglossum

No Taxon (Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees)

Species tarponense (Lasioglossum tarponense)

Other Common Names

Lake Placid Sweat Bee

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Dialictus tarponensis Mitchell, 1960; Dialictus placidensis Mitchell, 1960

Explanation of Names

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) tarponense (Mitchell, 1960)

Size

Female: Length 4.41 mm(1)

Male: Length 4.17 mm(1)

Identification

Both sexes can be ID'd by the combination of: Legs and Clypeus yellow/orange and mesepisternum punctate.(1)

Range

Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Possible records in North Carolina.

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Season

February to September

Food

Recorded on Prunus angustifolia

Print References

Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.(2)

Gibbs, J. 2011. Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini.) Zootaxa.(1)

Internet References

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ITIS

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America

2.	Bees of the eastern United States Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).

Contributed by John S. Ascher on 28 November, 2009 - 11:10am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 12:05pm

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