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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Calliopsis hesperia

Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female Bee from Irvine Park - Calliopsis hesperia - female Syrphid - 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)