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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Augochlorine Green Sweat Bees and Allies (Augochlorini) » Augochloropsis

Genus Augochloropsis

Classification · Pronunciation · Numbers · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Sweat Bee - Augochloropsis metallica Augochloropsis - 5 mm Metallic Green Fly with Green Legs and Greenish Eyes on Cyrilla blossoms - Augochloropsis Green Metallic Sweat bee - Augochloropsis Augochorella - Augochloropsis Green bee : Augochloropsis? - Augochloropsis - female Bee Identification Project - Augochloropsis - female Augochloropsis? - Augochloropsis Green Bee - Augochloropsis
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 Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)
Subfamily Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)
Tribe Augochlorini (Augochlorine Green Sweat Bees and Allies)
Genus Augochloropsis
Pronunciation
awe-go-klor-OP-sis
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 145 spp. in 3 subgenera total; all our spp. are in the subg. Paraugochloropsis (contains 42 spp. total)(1)
Identification
Has a strong carina on pronotal lobe; metallic, angled tegulae. (Note by John Ascher)
Range
New World (map)(1)
Internet References
Discover Life
iNaturalist
GBIF
Moure's Bee Catalogue
BOLD Systems
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Sean McCann on 11 October, 2006 - 4:58pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 11 February, 2021 - 12:24pm

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