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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Melanosmia (Osmia Subgenus Melanosmia) » likely Nothosmia Group II sensu Sinha (Osmia likely Nothosmia Group II sensu Sinha)
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Osmia? - Osmia - female
Copyright © 2006 Patrick Alexander

Osmia? - Osmia - Female
Rockhound State Park, Little Florida Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
April 8, 2006
Looks like something Eric said was an Osmia last week. Found on Physaria fendleri.
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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 12 April, 2006 - 4:08pm
Last updated 2 April, 2010 - 5:46pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Melanosmia.
… John S. Ascher, 2 April, 2010 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mason Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 12 March, 2009 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Osmiini.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 20 April, 2008 - 10:31pm login or register to post comments

Osmia
female

I suspect that this is subgenus Melanosmia sensu lato of Michener, 2000, and more precisely a member of Nothosmia Group II sensu Sinha (1958); this includes "the small desert species " (see Michener, 2000:465).
… John S. Ascher, 16 November, 2007 - 11:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Megachilidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 December, 2006 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

very likely an Osmia
if not, then an Atoposmia

not Hoplitis
… John S. Ascher, 11 October, 2006 - 8:30pm login or register to post comments

Not sure.
In arid areas, there is also the genus Hoplitis, which has a few metallic species. So, I'd say definitely a megachilid, and either Osmia or Hoplitis.
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 April, 2006 - 5:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Heriades?
Or Heriades?
… Adalbert Goertz, 25 April, 2006 - 12:56am login or register to post comments

 
no
Heriades are black and very slender
… John S. Ascher, 25 September, 2006 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

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