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Tribe Townsendiellini

another cuckoo bee - Townsendiella rufiventris poor shape - Townsendiella pulchra - male poor shape - Townsendiella pulchra - male poor shape - Townsendiella pulchra - male poor shape - Townsendiella pulchra - male Small, short-hairy, & cuckoo bee-like...with red abdomen & black elsewhere - Townsendiella rufiventris Very small, short white-hairy cuckoo bee...with red abdomen & mostly black elsewhere - Townsendiella rufiventris Small, short-hairy, & cuckoo bee-like...with red abdomen & black elsewhere - Townsendiella rufiventris
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 Townsendiellini
Numbers
a single genus with 4 spp., all in our area(1)
Range
sw US & n Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 14 January, 2016 - 4:13pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 5 July, 2017 - 3:26pm

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