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Genus Anthidium

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Ubidentified bee on Anise Hyssop - Anthidium Unknown Large Bee - Anthidium manicatum Male or Female Wool Carder Bee? - Anthidium manicatum The Female Wool Carder Bee - Anthidium manicatum - female Fly or Bee - Anthidium Leaf Cutter Bee - Anthidium oblongatum - female Bee - Anthidium porterae - male Leaf-cutter bee - Anthidium oblongatum - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Megachilidae (Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae
Tribe Anthidiini
Genus Anthidium
Other Common Names
Wool carder bee
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists 30 species.
Arnett, p. 604, lists 25 species (1).
Range
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Season
May-September (A. cognatum, North Carolina) (2). July-August (Minnesota).
Life Cycle
Females collect down from "wooly-leaved" plants and use it to line nest (1).
Remarks
The two common species in eastern North America, A. manicatum and A. oblongatum, are both adventive species native to Europe
Print References
Arnett, p. 604, describes briefly (1).
Brimley, p. 460, lists A. cognatum for North Carolina, May-September (2).
Internet References
Insects of Cedar Creek
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North Carolina State University Entomology Collection lists, from that state, with number pinned: maculifrons (83), notatum (113), perplexum (55).
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Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 October, 2004 - 8:19pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher
Last updated 1 January, 2008 - 4:53pm

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