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

Subfamily Lithurginae - Woodborer Bees

Leaf-cutter bee - Lithurgopsis apicalis - male bee h - Lithurgopsis apicalis Female Cactus woodborer bee Lithurgopsis littoralis - Lithurgopsis littoralis - female Cellophane Bee ? - Lithurgopsis apicalis - female Megachilid - Lithurgopsis apicalis - male unknown bee - Lithurgopsis apicalis Leaf cutter or woodborer? - Lithurgopsis Lithurgopsis apicalis? - Lithurgopsis apicalis
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 Lithurginae (Woodborer Bees)
Numbers
7 spp. in 2 genera in our area, >60 spp. in 3 genera worldwide(1)
Range
much of the world(1)
Print References
Rozen J.G. (1973) Immature stages of lithurgine bees with descriptions of the Megachilidae and Fideliidae based on mature larvae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum novitates 2527: 12 pp. (Full text)