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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Lasioglossum » Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees (Lasioglossum Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees) » Lasioglossum pictum

Species Lasioglossum pictum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Painted Lasioglossum - Lasioglossum pictum - female Lasioglossum? with orange abdomen - Lasioglossum pictum Lasioglossum? with orange abdomen - Lasioglossum pictum
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 pictum (Lasioglossum pictum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Halictus pictus Crawford, 1902; Halictus graenicheri Ellis, 1914; Dialictus muskegonensis Mitchell, 1960; Dialictus pictus (Crawford, 1902); Chloralictus graenicheri (Ellis, 1914)
Explanation of Names
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) pictum (Crawford, 1902)
Size
Female: Length 4.76–5.49 mm(1)
Male: Length 5.37–5.55 mm(1)
Range
Canada: Southern Alberta to Southern Ontario.
USA: Texas to North Dakota to Michigan.
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Season
April to September.
Food
Recorded on Asclepias, Helianthus, Amorpha, Penstemon. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Remarks
Relatively common
Print References
Mitchell, T.B. 1960 Bees of the Eastern United States. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141.(2)
Gibbs, J. 2010. Revision of the metallic species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus)in Canada (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Halictini). Zootaxa; 2591, 249-253.(1)
Gibbs, J. 2011. Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini.) Zootaxa.(3)
Gardner, J., & Gibbs, J. (2020). The ‘red-tailed’ Lasioglossum (Dialictus) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) of the western Nearctic. European Journal of Taxonomy, 725(1), 1-242. (Full Text Here)
Internet References
Discover Life
iNaturalist
ITIS
Works Cited
1.Revision of the metallic species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) in Canada.
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.).
3.Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 2 April, 2010 - 11:12pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 12:02pm

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