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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Protosmia » Protosmia rubifloris
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Osmiini? - Protosmia rubifloris - male
Copyright © 2008 Hartmut Wisch

Osmiini? - Protosmia rubifloris - Male
4350 ft. alt., off Angeles Crest Highway, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 14, 2008
Size: ~ 5mm
On Cryptantha .
Thought at first sight this might be a halictine bee, but think I can see two submarginals.

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Osmiini? - Protosmia rubifloris - male Osmiini? - Protosmia rubifloris - male
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 17 April, 2008 - 11:30am
Last updated 8 November, 2009 - 3:39pm

Moved
Moved from Osmiini.
… John S. Ascher, 8 November, 2009 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

I think this is Protosmia rubifloris
note images of what I think is the female
… John S. Ascher, 8 November, 2009 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Osmiini male
either Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) rubifloris (Cockerell) or Hoplitis sensu lato.

It would help to see additional images showing different angles, even if of poor quality. Protosmia males have long, curled antennae, but this is not apparent in this image.
… John S. Ascher, 17 April, 2008 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John -
I'll just have to try to find this bee again; didn't succeed today and don't have other photos.
Separately, I'm posting a female Megachilid, possibly in Osmiini (?), from today's foray to the same place in the San Gabriels.
… Hartmut Wisch, 18 April, 2008 - 12:31am login or register to post comments

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