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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 » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Diphaglossinae » Ptiloglossa » Mexican Feather-tongue (Ptiloglossa mexicana)

Species Ptiloglossa mexicana - Mexican Feather-tongue

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Mexican Feather-tongued Bee - Ptiloglossa mexicana - male Mexican Feather-tongued Bee - Ptiloglossa mexicana - male Mexican Feather-tongued Bee - Ptiloglossa mexicana - female Mexican Feather-tongued Bee - Ptiloglossa mexicana - female Mexican Feather-tongued Bee - Ptiloglossa mexicana - female
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 Colletidae (Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees)
Subfamily Diphaglossinae
Genus Ptiloglossa
Species mexicana (Mexican Feather-tongue)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ptiloglossa mexicana (Cresson)
Orig. Comb: Megacilissa mexicana Cresson, 1878
Size
Male: Length 15 mm(1)
Female: Length 17 mm(1)
Range
southmost TX to Columbia - Map (Discover Life)
Internet References
Discover Life
iNaturalist
Moure's Bee Catalogue
Works Cited
1.Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 104(1), 1.
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 28 November, 2013 - 12:15am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 1:13am

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