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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) » Wool-carder, Resin, Pebble, and Allied Bees (Anthidiini) » Stelis » Subgenus Dolichostelis (Stelis Subgenus Dolichostelis) » Stelis laticincta

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Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Stelis laticincta

Angeles Crest Highway, alt. ~6500 ft, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
August 2, 2006
Size: ~8-9mm

Nectaring in Chrysothamnus nauseosus.

ID by Doug Yanega (Dept. of Entomology, Entomology Research Museum, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA):
Stelis (Dolichostelis) laticincta, a parasitic leafcutter bee.

Cleptoparasitic on Megachile (Michener, et al.:(1)).
Species of Megachile, subgenus Chelostomoides, are probable hosts for Stelis according to Doug Yanega. (See also here:2)

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 9 August, 2006 - 8:15pm
Last updated 3 August, 2007 - 11:13am

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My oh my. I would never have guessed this was a Megachilid!

… Sean McCann, 9 August, 2006 - 8:37pm

Didn't dare

to say 'Megachilid' in this case (until the ID by Doug Yanega), even though the wing venation seemed right, and it seemed to have a 'leafcutter look'.

… Hartmut Wisch, 10 August, 2006 - 8:32pm

Moved

to new species page

… Chuck Entz, 9 August, 2006 - 8:24pm

Chuck

this was as fast as if you were at a computer next to me. How did you do this?
Any particular reason you don't include the subfamily and tribe?

… Hartmut Wisch, 9 August, 2006 - 8:29pm

Luck

I just happened to check Recent at the right moment. The mechanics of setting up an empty guide page are very simple, so it took only a minute or two.

As to subfamily and tribe: none of the other taxa in the family are grouped that way, so I would have had to create subfamily and tribe guide pages for all the genera, then move them there- but first I would have have had to do some research to find out what they were, which is what takes the most time.

… Chuck Entz, 10 August, 2006 - 7:21am

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