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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) » Short-faced Bees and Allies (Rophitinae) » Short-faced Bees (Dufourea)

Genus Dufourea - Short-faced Bees

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Dufourea - Dufourea - female Desert Bee on Poppy - Dufourea - male Unknown bee - Dufourea Dufourea pulchricornis Dufourea pulchricornis Bee Idenification Project - Dufourea - female Fish Spring Bee in May - Dufourea Mariposa Lily 232449 - Dufourea - male
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 Rophitinae (Short-faced Bees and Allies)
Genus Dufourea (Short-faced Bees)
Numbers
72 spp. in our area, ~170 spp. total(1)
Size
3.5 to 11mm(2)
Identification
Low position of antennae and modified hind legs.
Range
Holarctic
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Print References
A key to eastern species can be found in Griswold et. al. 2014 (Full Text Here)
A key to the Canadian species can be found in Dumesh and Sheffield 2012 (Full Text Here)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
Charles D. Michener. 2007. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 11 December, 2006 - 5:44pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, v belov, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 8 July, 2022 - 2:26am

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