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Stout blackish Bee with long-yellow-white hair-bands, large scopa, and black-spot-pattern green-eyes - Melissodes - female
Copyright © 2013 Emile

Stout blackish Bee with long-yellow-white hair-bands, large scopa, and black-spot-pattern green-eyes - Melissodes - Female
Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 26, 2013
Size: ~~ 10 mm (rough estimate)
On Isocoma menziesii (Goldenbush).
Is this a female Apid Bee in genus Diadesia ?

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Stout blackish Bee with long-yellow-white hair-bands, large scopa, and black-spot-pattern green-eyes - Melissodes - female Stout blackish Bee with long-yellow-white hair-bands, large scopa, and black-spot-pattern green-eyes - Melissodes - female
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Contributed by Emile on 29 October, 2013 - 1:27pm
Last updated 29 October, 2013 - 7:17pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 29 October, 2013 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks a lot for straightening this out, John !
My first hunch was Melissodes, but I couldn't find any BugGuide matches; and didn't succeed trying to key it out by tribe ...

In any case, it being Melissodes, could it be M. (Callimelissodes) lupina ?
M. lupina resembles very nicely and has been recorded from our county.
… Emile, 30 October, 2013 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

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