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Unknown bee 3 - Lithurgopsis apicalis
Copyright © 2009 smulder

Unknown bee 3 - Lithurgopsis apicalis
Bosque Del Apache, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
June 6, 2009
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Contributed by smulder on 10 December, 2009 - 9:38pm
Last updated 18 August, 2010 - 1:16pm

Moved
Moved from Lithurgus.
… John S. Ascher, 18 August, 2010 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 11 December, 2009 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

Lithurgus (Lithurgopsis) female
most likely L. apicalis
… John S. Ascher, 11 December, 2009 - 9:41am login or register to post comments

Do you know the flower?
Such info, plus size estimate, could help our experts.
… Ron Hemberger, 11 December, 2009 - 12:29am login or register to post comments

 
It was a prickly pear cactus
It was a prickly pear cactus flower. I don't remember the size very well, but if you know how big those flowers are, you can estimate.
… smulder, 11 December, 2009 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

 
Male megachilid.
My best guess is a male in the genus Lithurge (aka Lithurgus), which are nearly obligate pollinators of prickly pear (that is where you see them most often, anyway).
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 December, 2009 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

 
Lithurgus is the correct name
see Michener, 2000

If Lithurge were correct I would have used this spelling in previous postings
… John S. Ascher, 11 December, 2009 - 9:41am login or register to post comments

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