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Subspecies Sphecodes heraclei heraclei

Sphecodes sp ? - Sphecodes heraclei - female

Male Sphecodes bee - Sphecodes heraclei - male

Black bee on Asclepias verticillata - Sphecodes heraclei - male

Black bee on Asclepias verticillata - Sphecodes heraclei

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 Sphecodes (Blood Bees)

Species heraclei (Cyclops Cuckoo Sweat Bee)

Subspecies heraclei (Sphecodes heraclei heraclei)

Contributed by John S. Ascher on 8 March, 2010 - 1:39pm

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