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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) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Nomad Bees (Nomadini) » Nomad Bees (Nomada) » erigeronis species group (Nomada erigeronis species group) » Nomada australis
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Sleeping Nomada - Nomada australis - female
Copyright © 2010 Jon Hart

Sleeping Nomada - Nomada australis - Female
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
April 27, 2010
Size: unrecorded
Found clinging to pine needle in wind approaching 45 mph. Everything was grounded and I got lucky enough to catch this shot.
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Contributed by Jon Hart on 29 April, 2010 - 4:17pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 5:10pm

Moved
Moved from Cuckoo Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 2 May, 2010 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

Nomada australis female
erigeronis species group. Note entirely red metasoma. Nearly all ruficornis group females would have some yellow spots although these might be very obscure or inconspicuous (e.g., in N. lehighensis).

separated by articulata by row of relatively long black spines at apex of hind tibia (visible in highly zoomed view image).

Also australis is an expected species in the SE USA as its name suggests, although the two are broadly sympatric.

An amazing shot given the high winds.

Many nomadines sleep attached to stems with their mandibles.
… John S. Ascher, 2 May, 2010 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

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