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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Blood Bees (Sphecodes)
Genus
Sphecodes
- Blood Bees
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
Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)
Subfamily
Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)
Tribe
Halictini
Genus
Sphecodes
(Blood Bees)
Pronunciation
sfeck-OH-deez
Explanation of Names
Sphecodes
Latreille 1804
Numbers
72 spp. in our area, ~350 total
(
1
)
Identification
Females
(
2
)
:
head and thorax often black, with the abdomen red
no pollen-collecting hairs
body very coarsely sculptured
Range
worldwide (
map
)
(
1
)
Remarks
Cleptoparasites
, usually of other Halictinae
(
3
)
Internet References
genus page
(
1
)
iNaturalist
Works Cited
1.
Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.
Bees of the eastern United States
Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).
3.
The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
Charles D. Michener. 2007. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contributed by
tom murray
on 9 May, 2005 - 5:28pm
Additional contributions by
Beatriz Moisset
,
John S. Ascher
,
Vox Sciurorum
,
v belov
,
Nathaniel Green
Last updated 31 July, 2021 - 6:32pm