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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) » Nomiine Bees (Nomiinae) » Dieunomia » Subgenus Dieunomia (Dieunomia Subgenus Dieunomia) » Dieunomia heteropoda
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6013495 black bee - Dieunomia heteropoda
Copyright © 2006 Rob Curtis

6013495 black bee - Dieunomia heteropoda
Sand Ridge SF, IL, Illinois, USA
August 29, 2006
Size: ~1"
Quite larger than the usual black Melissodes bimaculata that I've encountered.
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 24 September, 2006 - 2:25pm
Last updated 3 October, 2006 - 8:19pm

Dieunomia heteropoda
this one is blacker than most I've seen. It is the largest halictid species in eastern North America
… John S. Ascher, 24 September, 2006 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks very much for the dete
Thanks very much for the determination.
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