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Species Lasioglossum reticulatum

Found in Longleaf Pine Savannah during the afternoon - Lasioglossum reticulatum - female Found in Longleaf Pine Savannah during the afternoon - Lasioglossum reticulatum - female Small blue metallic bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum - male Leaf cutter bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum Teal Bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum Brown metallic bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum Brown metallic bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum Small bee - Lasioglossum reticulatum
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 Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)
Subfamily Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)
Tribe Halictini
Genus Lasioglossum
No Taxon (Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees)
Species reticulatum (Lasioglossum reticulatum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Halictus fulvipes_homonym Smith, 1853; Halictus reticulatus Robertson, 1892; Halictus rhododactylus Dalla Torre, 1896, replacement name; Dialictus reticulatus (Robertson, 1892)
Explanation of Names
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) reticulatum (Robertson, 1892)
Size
Female: Length 6.23–6.66 mm(1)
Male: Length 5.8mm(1)
Range
East Texas to North Carolina south to Florida. There are also scattered records further north east (to New Jersey).
Season
March to September, throughout the year in Florida.
Food
Recorded on Rhus, Bidens, Heterotheca, Verbascum. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Print References
Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.(2)
Gibbs, J. 2011. Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini.) Zootaxa.(1)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America
2.Bees of the eastern United States
Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).