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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees (Megachilini) » Leafcutter and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Argyropile (Megachile Subgenus Argyropile) » Megachile parallela
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Megachilid - Megachile parallela - female
Copyright © 2014 Ben Kolstad

Megachilid - Megachile parallela - Female
Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
October 15, 2014
Found several megachile bees this morning. Is there an easy way to tell the difference between petulans and parallela? They both seem "bent-tailed" to me. I do see that the guide has only one record of parallela in Florida.
PS--apologies if this is a duplicate posting; my first one this afternoon disappeared. I think I accidentally assigned it a date of 2015, and the system trashed it?
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Contributed by Ben Kolstad on 15 October, 2014 - 4:45pm
Last updated 20 June, 2018 - 6:52pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 15 October, 2014 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

Refers to the very tip of e tail
Not the shape in general
… John S. Ascher, 15 October, 2014 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Tailtip is bent, got it!
Having struggled mightily through these long keys, I see why people specialize. Whew!
… Ben Kolstad, 16 October, 2014 - 5:37am login or register to post comments

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