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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) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Digger Bees (Anthophorini) » Digger Bees (Anthophora) » Subgenus Lophanthophora (Anthophora Subgenus Lophanthophora) » Anthophora pacifica

Species Anthophora pacifica

Representative Images

Interesting Bee - Anthophora pacifica - male Interesting Bee - Anthophora pacifica - male Anthrophora (Male) - Anthophora pacifica - male Pacific Digger - Anthophora pacifica Leafcutter? - Anthophora pacifica - male Leafcutter? - Anthophora pacifica - male Anthophora pacifica Anthophora pacifica

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 Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Anthophorini (Digger Bees)
Genus Anthophora (Digger Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Lophanthophora)
Species pacifica (Anthophora pacifica)

Range

Western. Discover Life Map.

Food

Visits flowers from several families. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Life Cycle

This species overwinters as unemerged adults in their cells, instead as prepupae. (Brooks, 1988; cited in Michener, 2007)

Print References

(1)

Brooks, R. W. 1988. Systematics and phylogeny of the anthophorine bees. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 53: 436-575.

Internet References

Discover Life

Works Cited

1.The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
Charles D. Michener. 2007. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 12 April, 2010 - 11:25pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 14 December, 2021 - 11:40pm

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