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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) » Epeolini » Triepeolus » verbesinae species group (Triepeolus verbesinae species group)
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Doeringiella - Triepeolus - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Doeringiella - Triepeolus - Female
Mount Pinos summit, elev. 8831 ft (2692m), Ventura County, California, USA
August 22, 2006
Size: 8-9mm
When at first I saw this small insect (here on Eriogonum kennedyi), I thought sand wasp. Once enlarged, I think this probably belongs in the Nomadinae, a female about to oviposit? Unfortunately, it was time to leave so I couldn't observe it any longer.

Triepeolus (now in Doeringiella); ID by Doug Yanega (Dept. of Entomology, Entomology Research Museum, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA).

Update: Acc. to John Ascher, Doeringiella sensu Michener (2000) has been reinstated into Triepeolus by Molly Rightmyer of KU.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 23 August, 2006 - 2:36pm
Last updated 14 May, 2010 - 1:11pm

Moved
Moved from Triepeolus.
… Hartmut Wisch, 14 May, 2010 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Doeringiella.
… Hartmut Wisch, 12 July, 2007 - 1:24am login or register to post comments

Yes.
Cuckoo bee indeed, and yet another puzzling one. Solitary bee diversity goes through the roof in the southwest U.S. The pygidial plate (that really obvious oval shape at the tip of the abdomen) will probably help a 'real' expert get this to genus for you. Great images.
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 August, 2006 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Eric!
Thanks, Eric!
… Hartmut Wisch, 24 August, 2006 - 12:30am login or register to post comments

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