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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 » Furrow Bees (Halictus) » Subgenus Vestitohalictus (Halictus Subgenus Vestitohalictus) » Halictus tectus
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Little Bee ID Request - Halictus tectus - male
Copyright © 2009 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Little Bee ID Request - Halictus tectus - Male
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
July 14, 2009
Observed on Daucus carota.

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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 14 July, 2009 - 4:00pm
Last updated 8 December, 2009 - 10:48pm

treated here:
http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/page.asp?id=97

as a ssp. of Vestitohalictus vestitus
… John S. Ascher, 11 December, 2009 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Halictus.
… John S. Ascher, 8 December, 2009 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

Halictus (Seladonia) tectus Radoszkowski, 1875
male

Adventive from the Old World. New World occurrence not yet published.
… John S. Ascher, 8 December, 2009 - 10:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Native
range is from Southern Europe to Mongolia which roughly coincides with Baltimore's latitude.

Despite any differences of topography and climate, Baltimore shares a similar latitude with the Spanish island of Ibiza, the Italian island of Sardinia, with a long stretch of Turkey, through Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, then across a long stretch of China (near Beijing), across North Korea (not far from Pyongyang), and finally to the Japanese island of Honshu.

[See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_parallel_north]
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 8 December, 2009 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

Halictus
male
… John S. Ascher, 14 July, 2009 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow,
I was way off on this one!
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 14 July, 2009 - 5:22pm login or register to post comments

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