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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 Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Melectini (Mourning Bees)
Genus Zacosmia
Species maculata (Zacosmia maculata)
Explanation of Names Zacosmia maculata (Cresson, 1879)
maculata = from the Latin maculāta ('spotted, stained, polluted')
Numbers Two subspecies are currently recognized: desertorum and maculata (ITIS, see Internet Ref.) Size smallest Melectini, 5-9 mm in body length. (Michener. 2000. (1)) Identification Diagnostic characters include: fusiform (tapered at both ends, with median segments thickened) male flagellum; the marginal cell is ~ half as long as the distance from cell apex to wing tip. (1)Range From southern Alberta, Canada, and WA, USA, south to Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Durango)
Food The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known associations based on specimen records and images. Remarks Cleptoparasite of Anthophora (Heliophila) , in a manner similar to other Melectini. Females break into the hosts' closed cells, and posit their eggs on the cell cap or upper cell wall. They subsequently reclose the cell with secretion-moistened earth. (from Michener (1)) Print References Torchio, P.F., and N.N. Youssef. 1968. The Biology of Anthophora (Micranthophora)flexipes and its cleptoparasite, Zacosmia maculata, including a description of the immature stages of the parasite. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 41:289-302. Works Cited | 1. | The Bees of the World
Charles Duncan Michener. 2000. Johns Hopkins University Press. |  |
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