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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Megachilini - Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees

Unknown Bee  - Megachile pugnata Bee ID - Megachile Megachile chilopsidis - female Hairy Belly Bee  - Megachile Black Carpenter-mimic Leaf-cutter Bee? - Megachile xylocopoides - female Dark Leafcutter bee - Megachile - female Magachile sp. ? - Megachile inermis - female Leafcutter Bee - Megachile - 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 Megachilidae (Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives)
Tribe Megachilini (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees)
Numbers
>170 spp. in 2 genera in our area, >2000 spp. in 5 genera worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide(1)