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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Calliopsine Bees (Calliopsini) » Calliopsis » Subgenus Calliopsis (Calliopsis Subgenus Calliopsis) » Calliopsis rhodophila
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Calliopsis rhodophila - female
Copyright © 2013 Hartmut Wisch

Calliopsis rhodophila - Female
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 15, 2013
Size: 6 mm
Found visiting flowers of Malacothamnus fasciculatus. Though there are numerous photos of this species from Orange County at BG, this is the first from Los Angeles County.
For ID used Shinn (1967), double-checked with Doug Yanega.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 29 May, 2013 - 8:46pm
Last updated 29 May, 2013 - 11:26pm

Nicely done, Hartmut
Now I know what they're supposed to look like!
… Ron Hemberger, 29 May, 2013 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Ron -
also discovered Megachile montivaga in my garden, as well as Diadasia ochracea.
The latter also from Theodore Payne Foundation from where I have actual specimens.
Will post these some time soon.
… Hartmut Wisch, 29 May, 2013 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Good! I have always enjoyed seeing your bees.
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… Ron Hemberger, 29 May, 2013 - 11:33pm login or register to post comments

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