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unidentified species likely adventive in Florida

Xylocopa varipuncta in Florida - Xylocopa - male Xylocopa varipuncta in Florida - Xylocopa - male Black bee - Xylocopa - female Bee seen in my pollinator garden in April (tampa bay area) - Xylocopa Valley Carpenter in FL? - Xylocopa - male Xylocopa (Large Carpenter Bee) (unidentified species likely adventive in Florida) - Xylocopa Fuzzy yellow bee - Xylocopa - male Silvery bee - Xylocopa
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 Neoxylocopa)
No Taxon unidentified species likely adventive in Florida
Remarks
This unknown Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) has recently appeared in Florida.

As noted in comments by J. S. Ascher the specimens do not appear to be X. varipuncta, based on wing color of a female photographed, and are instead more likely to be X. mexicanorum of S. Texas and Mexico or X. mordax of the Greater Antilles. In any case this is a first record of X. (Neoxylocopa) for the eastern USA.
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 14 March, 2018 - 12:17am

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