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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) » Short-faced Bees and Allies (Rophitinae) » Short-faced Bees (Dufourea) » probably Dufoura mulleri (Dufourea probably Dufoura mulleri)
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Halictid? - Dufourea - female
Copyright © 2010 Hartmut Wisch

Halictid? - Dufourea - Female
Bernard Biological Field Station (Claremont Colleges), Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 7, 2009
Packing pollen in Phacelia distans. I don't have a photo showing wing venation.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 28 April, 2010 - 12:21pm
Last updated 31 October, 2013 - 7:32am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 29 April, 2010 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

yes, a halictid female
I wonder if it could be Dufourea mulleri, a Phacelia specialist?
… John S. Ascher, 28 April, 2010 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John -
This might be a candidate. This species was all over the Phacelia, fast & busy, thus difficult to photograph. D. mulleri is one of the spp. on Molly Rightmyer's Claremont list. I'll just have to try to get some more photos, as well as a specimen.
… Hartmut Wisch, 28 April, 2010 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

 
it may be identifiable from the photo
but I'm away from NY now so can't check the collection

Can we rule out Halictus tripartitus?
… John S. Ascher, 28 April, 2010 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm not certain whether I could
rule out Halictus tripartitus, though I noticed more reddish tegulae on that species.
I'm looking through my other photos (don't have time to go out to Claremont right now) to see whether any of them show wing venation. I have a series of shots of the same specimen, not very good, but some might show a bit more.
… Hartmut Wisch, 29 April, 2010 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

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