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Subgenus Synhalonia

Melissodes species? Appears to be a male. - Eucera - 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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)

Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)

Tribe Eucerini (Longhorn Bees)

Genus Eucera

No Taxon Subgenus Synhalonia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Three species were recently removed to a new genus Protohalonia.

Explanation of Names

Synhalonia Patton 1879

Numbers

51 spp. in our area, 100 total(1)

Identification

All-black, very long antennae (males) and projecting clypeus are noteworthy (cf. Melissodes)

Range

holarctic(1)

Season

Most fly exclusively in the spring

Food

Many visit legumes

Print References

(2)

Works Cited

1.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

2.	A contribution to the systematics of North American species of Synhalonia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) Timberlake P.H. 1969. UC Pub. Entomol. 57: 1‒76.

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 4 April, 2008 - 8:31am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 18 October, 2023 - 3:27pm

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