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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Striped Sweat Bees (Agapostemon) » Subgenus Agapostemon (Agapostemon Subgenus Agapostemon) » Agapostemon angelicus
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Have I got this right? Agapostemon splendens? No, but it may be A. angelicus - Agapostemon angelicus - male
Copyright © 2009 Ron Hemberger

Have I got this right? Agapostemon splendens? No, but it may be A. angelicus - Agapostemon angelicus - Male
Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA
May 31, 2009

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Have I got this right? Agapostemon splendens? No - Agapostemon angelicus - male Have I got this right? Agapostemon splendens? No - Agapostemon angelicus - male Have I got this right? Agapostemon splendens? No, but it may be A. angelicus - Agapostemon angelicus - male
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 6 June, 2009 - 6:02am
Last updated 24 January, 2010 - 11:16am

Agapostemon male but not splendens
it is not helpful to speculate about species IDs. Before doing so please check range maps.

Splendens has dark wings. I don't know what this is.

My best guess is angelicus.
… John S. Ascher, 6 June, 2009 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
Got it. No more species guesses, then.
Sorry; I knew that about flies.

I had a specimen IDed as A. splendens long ago and made a comparision. Will revisit the earlier ID.
… Ron Hemberger, 6 June, 2009 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

 
splendens is not in CA
so if from there it must be a misdet.
… John S. Ascher, 6 June, 2009 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John
Reading between the lines in your earlier comment, that's what I'd thought.
… Ron Hemberger, 6 June, 2009 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

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