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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Ericrocidini » Ericrocis » Ericrocis pintada
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Cuckoo Bee? - Ericrocis pintada
Copyright © 2014 Robert A. Behrstock

Cuckoo Bee? - Ericrocis pintada
Hereford, just west of Hwy 92, lower Ash Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 2, 2014
Butterfly garden in oak-grassland interface. SE Huachuca Mts. Nectaring on Verbena macdougalii. Elev. 5,020'
A very disappointing situation as all I had available was my little point-and-shoot and I'm not vary happy with the images. This was a bee we'd not seen in the yard during the 10 years we have been at this location.

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Contributed by Robert A. Behrstock on 25 August, 2014 - 12:48am
Last updated 25 August, 2014 - 8:17am

John, Thanks so much. Happy t
John, Thanks so much. Happy to get a name for this lovely bee. Will watch for another. Centris plentiful here. RAB
… Robert A. Behrstock, 25 August, 2014 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 25 August, 2014 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

Ericrocis pintada
The rarer of e two species of this genus. Both are cleptoparasites of Centris (Paracentris)

Note darker wings and all black hairs on distal half of tibiae
… John S. Ascher, 25 August, 2014 - 8:16am login or register to post comments

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