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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) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Epeolini » Triepeolus » Triepeolus lunatus
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possible tripeolus - Triepeolus lunatus - male
Copyright © 2016 angella moorehouse

possible tripeolus - Triepeolus lunatus - Male
Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
June 29, 2016
If my ID is correct this is the first Tripeolus sp. I've had in the yard this year. I believe it's the same species I had last year - though I have no species ID, only genus. There were two sleeping next to a couple of Melissodes.
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Contributed by angella moorehouse on 30 June, 2016 - 8:16am

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… John S. Ascher, 30 June, 2016 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

yes, likely a lunatus male
were the Melissodes black?, i.e. bimaculatus
… John S. Ascher, 30 June, 2016 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

 
yes, the other male Melissode
yes, the other male Melissodes was black with pale legs. Looks like it may have been an all male sleeping party. That was my original thought.
… angella moorehouse, 30 June, 2016 - 8:51am login or register to post comments

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