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Species Triepeolus kathrynae

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Triepeolus kathrynae - female pseudopygidial area and dorsal pattern match well - Triepeolus kathrynae - female pseudopygidial area and dorsal pattern match well - Triepeolus kathrynae - female pseudopygidial area and dorsal pattern match well - Triepeolus kathrynae - female pseudopygidial area and dorsal pattern match well - Triepeolus kathrynae - 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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Nomadinae (Cuckoo Bees)
Tribe Epeolini
Genus Triepeolus
Species kathrynae (Triepeolus kathrynae)

Explanation of Names

Rozen, 1989

Named in celebration of the describer's granddaughter Kathryn Gail Rozen-Gagnon

Size

smaller on average than T. grandis

Identification

Hairs yellower (less white) than T. grandis

Range

AZ, NM, TX, Mexico
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Habitat

Deserts and nearby canyons

Season

Mostly late summer

Food

A cleptoparasite of Protoxaea

Remarks

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5111

Print References

Rozen, Jerome George. 1989. Two new species and the redescription of another species of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus with notes on their immature stages (Anthophoridae, Nomadinae). American Museum novitates; no. 2956. (pdf)

Internet References

DiscoverLife
Contributed by hg on 11 January, 2015 - 10:05am
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, PaleoJon
Last updated 2 August, 2021 - 2:27pm

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