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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina) » Subgenus Calloceratina (Ceratina Subgenus Calloceratina) » Ceratina cobaltina
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Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female
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Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - Female
National Butterfly Center in Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
September 17, 2018
Size: 7-8 mm
Is this Ceratina cobaltina?

This is a singular-looking small carpenter bee with a coarsely pitted face and body and brilliant blue-green iridescence, found collecting pollen on an alamo vine flower (Mirremia dissecta), in an arid habitat near the Mexican border. There is a pale dot on the bee’s clypeus. There’s no pale marking on the pronotal lobe.

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Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female Iridescent blue-green small carpenter bee, from Texas-Mexican border - Ceratina cobaltina - female
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Contributed by Jatai on 22 November, 2018 - 5:21pm
Last updated 22 November, 2018 - 8:58pm

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