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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) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Chelostoma » Subgenus Neochelostoma (Chelostoma Subgenus Neochelostoma)

Subgenus Neochelostoma

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited
ID for a little bee on Phacelia? - Chelostoma - female 145 - Chelostoma 280 - Chelostoma Andrena? - Chelostoma - male Small Black Bee with White Stripes - Chelostoma Chelostoma phaceliae - male Small bee study - Chelostoma Small bee study - Chelostoma
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 Megachilidae (Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives)
Tribe Osmiini (Mason bees and relatives)
Genus Chelostoma
No Taxon Subgenus Neochelostoma
Other Common Names
Subgenus Foveosmia sensu lato
Explanation of Names
Neo- refers to the New World since this subgenus comprises the New World species of former subgenus Foveosmia
Numbers
9 spp. in our area (incl. the introduced Ch. campanularum), 25 spp. worldwide(1)
Range
Holarctic (NA, Europe+Middle East); in our area, Ch. campanularum in ne. NA, the rest (native spp.) in the west(1)
Season
Most species fly in the spring
Food
Several species visit Phacelia
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 3 May, 2010 - 10:36am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 December, 2019 - 1:42am

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