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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) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Epeolini » Triepeolus » Triepeolus concavus

Species Triepeolus concavus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References

Unknown Hymenoptera? - Triepeolus concavus

Another species of Triepeolus? - Triepeolus concavus - male

Triepeolus concavus? - Triepeolus concavus

Bee sleeping on grass - Triepeolus concavus

Bee (Kleptoparasite?) on Grindelia squarrosa - Triepeolus concavus - male

Unknown Bee - Triepeolus concavus - 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 Nomadinae (Cuckoo Bees)

Tribe Epeolini

Genus Triepeolus

Species concavus (Triepeolus concavus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Epeolus concavus

Explanation of Names

Author: Cresson, 1878

Size

10-16 mm

Identification

Large, S6 of female concave

Range

USA: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California (the Central Valley, and extending further south into San Bernardino Co. and Riverside Co.), Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin.

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Season

June to October

Food

Recorded on Helianthus, Verbena, Asteraceae. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Often found on sunflowers, a preferred floral host of its host bee

Life Cycle

Cleptoparasite of Svastra obliqua (multiple subspecies)

Print References

Mitchell, T.B. 1962 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 152.

Rightmyer, M.G. 2008. A Review of the Cleptoparasitic Bee Genus Triepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae).

Internet References

Discover Life

Contributed by John S. Ascher on 1 January, 2010 - 12:35pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 21 June, 2021 - 10:17am

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