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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) » Large Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa) » Subgenus Notoxylocopa (Xylocopa Subgenus Notoxylocopa) » Horse-fly Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis) » Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex
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Black Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa tabaniformis - female
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Black Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa tabaniformis - Female
Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, pond MB05, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 23, 2008
Size: ~13 mm
All black bee with smoky dark wings. Family Apidae, female.
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Contributed by iNaturalist on 29 January, 2009 - 5:54pm
Last updated 30 January, 2009 - 11:54am

Female carpenter bee.
This is a female bee in the genus Xylocopa, no doubt Xylocopa tabaniformis (though I don't know the subspecies down there, mabye X. t. orpifex?). Dr. Ascher will know:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 29 January, 2009 - 6:41pm login or register to post comments

 
X. t. orpifex
that's it
… John S. Ascher, 29 January, 2009 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

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