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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) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees (Megachilini) » Leafcutter and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Sayapis (Megachile Subgenus Sayapis) » Megachile inimica » Megachile inimica sayi

Subspecies Megachile inimica sayi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References
Genus Megachile - Leaf-cutting and Resin Bee? - Megachile inimica Hostile Leaf-cutter Bee - Megachile inimica Megachilidae - Megachile inimica Female Leafcutter - Megachile inimica - female Female Leafcutter - Megachile inimica - female large megachilid - Megachile inimica Megachilid - Megachile inimica - female Megachile leafcutter bee? - Megachile inimica - 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 Megachilidae (Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives)
Tribe Megachilini (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees)
Genus Megachile (Leafcutter and Resin Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Sayapis)
Species inimica (Megachile inimica)
Subspecies sayi (Megachile inimica sayi)
Explanation of Names
Megachile inimica sayi Cresson, 1878
sayi = named after Thomas Say, a prominent American entomologist and naturalist of the early 19th century
Identification
It differs from the typical form chiefly in the black legs in both sexes.The pubescence, including the fasciae, is usually white in sayi, while in typical inimica there a considerable tendency to yellowish color of pubescence. No differences of structure or sculpture that seem to be of any consequence have been found.
Range
The more northern form of this species, Pennsylvania to Florida, west to California and Mexico,
Season
July to September, and in Florida, to November.
Internet References
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Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 12 March, 2009 - 6:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, PaleoJon
Last updated 13 March, 2022 - 2:54pm

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