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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) » Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina) » Subgenus Zadontomerus (Ceratina Subgenus Zadontomerus) » calcarata, dupla, or mikmaqi (Ceratina calcarata, dupla, or mikmaqi)

calcarata, dupla, or mikmaqi

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Bee IMG_1328 - Ceratina Bee IMG_1328 - Ceratina small carpenter bee - Ceratina - female tiny aquamarine bee - Ceratina Ceratina calcarata - Ceratina - female Greenish bee - Ceratina carpenter bee? - Ceratina small dark bee sleeping on Helenium - Ceratina - female
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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Xylocopinae (Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees)
Genus Ceratina (Small Carpenter Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Zadontomerus)
No Taxon calcarata, dupla, or mikmaqi
Remarks
These three species are hard to tell apart from photos.
Print References
Rehan and Sheffield, 2011
Internet References
Morphological and DNA sequence delineation of two problematic species of Ceratina.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 30 October, 2009 - 8:51am
Additional contributions by Tom Bentley, John S. Ascher
Last updated 23 October, 2011 - 8:36pm

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