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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Calliopsine Bees (Calliopsini) » Calliopsis » Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato (Calliopsis Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato) » Calliopsis hesperia

Species Calliopsis hesperia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited
Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female pale-yellow & black striped wasp-like hymenopteran with bee-like fuzz wearing a yellow necklace and sporting mostly yellow legs. - Calliopsis hesperia pale-yellow & black striped wasp-like hymenopteran with bee-like fuzz wearing a yellow necklace and sporting mostly yellow legs. - Calliopsis hesperia Syrphid - Calliopsis hesperia - female Calliopsis (hesperia?) - Calliopsis hesperia - female Calliopsis (hesperia?) - Calliopsis hesperia - 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 Andrenidae (Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees)
Subfamily Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)
Tribe Calliopsini (Calliopsine Bees)
Genus Calliopsis
No Taxon (Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato)
Species hesperia (Calliopsis hesperia)
Explanation of Names
Calliopsis hesperia (Swenk & Cockerell 1907)
Range
sw US [map](1)
Food
Recorded on Leucanthemum, Heliotropium, Eriodictyon; host list(1)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 8 December, 2009 - 2:06pm
Additional contributions by v belov, hg
Last updated 20 July, 2017 - 4:20pm

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