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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) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Augochlorine Green Sweat Bees and Allies (Augochlorini) » Augochlora

Genus Augochlora

Classification · Pronunciation · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Halictid Bee - Augochlora pura - female Augochlora pura - female Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female Metallic Green Bee - Augochlora pura Augochlora or Aughochlorella - Augochlora pura Sweat Bee - Augochlora pura - female Sweat Bee - Augochlora pura - female Augochlora? - Augochlora - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Halictidae (Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees)
Subfamily Halictinae (Sweat and Furrow Bees)
Tribe Augochlorini (Augochlorine Green Sweat Bees and Allies)
Genus Augochlora
Pronunciation
awe-go-KLOR-uh
Explanation of Names
Augochlora (Say, 1837)
Numbers
2 subgenera, with 4 spp. in in our area and 116 spp. total(1):
Augochlora: 3 spp. in our area, 84 spp. total (neotropical group with 1 sp. reaching so. Canada and 1 sp., TX)(1)
Oxystoglossella: a single species in our area (TX-AZ), 27 spp. total, all neotropical(1)
Size
5-11mm(2)
Range
New World(1)
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Augochlora (Oxystoglossella) aurifera - Arizona and Texas
Augochlora azteca - Texas
Augochlora nigrocyanea - Southern Texas - Not yet in the guide
Augochlora pura - Eastern US - Quebec and Maine to Minnesota, south to Texas and Florida.
Internet References
Discover Life
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.The Bees of the World, 2nd edition
Charles D. Michener. 2007. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Contributed by tom murray on 24 September, 2006 - 9:14pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 29 October, 2020 - 11:40am

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