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Bee aggregation - Halictus parallelus - male
Copyright © 2006 Sean McCann

Bee aggregation - Halictus parallelus - Male
Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida, USA
September 24, 2006
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Contributed by Sean McCann on 24 September, 2006 - 6:14pm
Last updated 23 August, 2009 - 9:42am

Moved
Moved from Halictus.
… Sean McCann, 27 September, 2006 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

I'm now confident these are parallelus males
based on:
-strongly infuscated (dark) wings
-long vertex (=ocellocular distance)
-short "crewcut" hairs of thorax
-well-defined anterior yellow spot on tegula
-pattern of black at base of clypeus
-exact color pattern of legs

Initially I had not suspected parallelus because there seem to be few Florida records. Pascarella on his Florida Bee site maps this species only for Levy County
… John S. Ascher, 27 September, 2006 - 9:44am login or register to post comments

 
...
Thanks again!
… Sean McCann, 27 September, 2006 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Halictus poeyi.
… Sean McCann, 27 September, 2006 - 8:16am login or register to post comments

I now think these are H. parallelus
Sorry! I had forgotten that that parallelus is common in south Florida. Parallelus is easy to identify in real life due to large size but this is not obvious in photos. I'll double check the ID tomorrow and will try to take greater care in the future before posting
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2006 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

Halictus poeyi
recently separated from Halitus ligatus based on molecular data. Of this cryptic species pair, only H. poeyi is known to occur in Florida.
… John S. Ascher, 24 September, 2006 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
...
… Sean McCann, 24 September, 2006 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

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