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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) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Striped Sweat Bees (Agapostemon) » Subgenus Agapostemon (Agapostemon Subgenus Agapostemon) » Texas Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon texanus)
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Sweat bee on Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale - Agapostemon texanus - female
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Sweat bee on Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale - Agapostemon texanus - Female
San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 18, 2012
Size: About 10mm
I presume this is an Augochlorella sp. (Hymenoptera: Halictidae), metallic green sweat bee, but would like professional opinion, if possible. It is on the flowers of a native western cobwebby thistle (Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale).
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Contributed by aaronesims on 9 January, 2015 - 4:14pm
Last updated 10 January, 2015 - 10:12am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 10 January, 2015 - 3:56am login or register to post comments

White hair bands on terga
So must be Agapostemon (Channel Islands species is A. texanus) not Augochlorella pomoniella
… John S. Ascher, 10 January, 2015 - 3:54am login or register to post comments

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