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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Twisted-winged Insects (Strepsiptera) » Stylopidae » Stylops
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Bee, and its little friend - Stylops
Copyright © 2008 Brad Barnd

Bee, and its little friend - Stylops
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
April 9, 2008
Size: 8 mm (bee)
Found this bee in a Lindgren funnel trap sample. Andrenidae?

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 11 April, 2008 - 3:17pm
Last updated 2 May, 2012 - 9:19am

Moved
Moved from Stylopidae.
… John S. Ascher, 2 May, 2012 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

bee is an Andrena female
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… John S. Ascher, 2 May, 2012 - 9:17am login or register to post comments

 
thks John
… Brad Barnd, 2 May, 2012 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Twisted-winged Insects.
… Brad Barnd, 25 May, 2010 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

Stylopids
It looks like a male twisted-wing parasite.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/69897

Was it still alive (the parasite; the bee's clearly dead at this point)?
… Jonas Insinga, 11 April, 2008 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

 
It is!
Yes, this is a bee parasitized by a strepsipteran. I knew that but am curious as to the bee's ID. Both were dead by the time I found it.
… Brad Barnd, 11 April, 2008 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Placement -
I'm no expert, but Borror and Delong makes it sound like stylopids are the only strepsipteran family that parasitizes bees, so can these images be moved there? Or is that too simple - do some of the other nearctic strepsipterans parasitize bees as well?
… Ken Schneider, 24 May, 2010 - 11:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Sure
That would seem to be the case.
… Brad Barnd, 25 May, 2010 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

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