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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) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Melissodes » Subgenus Melissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Melissodes) » Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)
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Is this Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female
Copyright © 2009 Diane Wilson

Is this Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - Female
Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
July 22, 2009
Size: 10-15 mm
I'm venturing my first guess to species using the guide, but my knowledge of technical terms is very limited. This is a female, correct? Thanks for your help.

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Is this Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female Is this Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female Is this Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female
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Contributed by Diane Wilson on 22 July, 2009 - 5:33pm
Last updated 16 November, 2009 - 10:37am

Moved
Moved from Melissodes.
… John S. Ascher, 16 November, 2009 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 19 August, 2009 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

definitely a Melissodes female
certainly looks like bimaculata but I'm not certain

this is mostly an eastern-US species but it is known from Boulder and Brighton in CO.
… John S. Ascher, 22 July, 2009 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments

 
County location
Jefferson county is due south of Boulder county, and as far west.
Maybe it's still a possibility?
… Diane Wilson, 22 July, 2009 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

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