Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Former subgenus Monumetha, now subgenus Alcidamea in part

green bee on Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum fendleri) - Hoplitis fulgida - male Solitary bee on Wyethia - Hoplitis albifrons Bee on potentia species - Hoplitis albifrons - female Fuzzy Bee - Hoplitis spoliata Hoplitis (subgenus Alcidamea) - Hoplitis Cuckoo bee? - Hoplitis - male Hoplitis fulgida - male Bee id? - Hoplitis albifrons
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 Hoplitis
No Taxon Former subgenus Monumetha, now subgenus Alcidamea in part
Numbers
5 spp. in our area + 1 Palaearctic sp.(1)
Range
holarctic(1)