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Subspecies Xylocopa tabaniformis androleuca

Carpenter Bee? - Xylocopa tabaniformis Bee - Xylocopa tabaniformis - female Xylocopa? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - female Male Xylocopa tabaniformis ? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male Beautiful plump bee - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male big black bee - Xylocopa tabaniformis - female Male, Xylocopa tabaniformis androleuca? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male Apidae? - Xylocopa tabaniformis - male
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 Xylocopinae (Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees)
Genus Xylocopa (Large Carpenter Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Notoxylocopa)
Species tabaniformis (Horse-fly Carpenter Bee)
Subspecies androleuca (Xylocopa tabaniformis androleuca)
Explanation of Names
androleuca = from the Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andros) 'adult male' + Latin leuco-, after the Ancient Greek λευκός‎, ('white')

Refers to the pale, sometime whitish, hairs of males (other species are darker)
Range
Mostly in and south of the Great Basin
Print References
Hurd, P.D.,Jr. 1955. The Carpenter Bees of California (Hymenoptera:Apoidea). Bull.Calif.Insect Survey. Vol.4, no.2 (available as PDF)
Internet References
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