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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) » Halictini » Lasioglossum » Subgenus Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum Subgenus Lasioglossum) » Lasioglossum sisymbrii

Species Lasioglossum sisymbrii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Internet References

Halictus Farinosus? - Lasioglossum sisymbrii

small fuzzy bee on willow catkin - Lasioglossum sisymbrii - female

Colletidae family - Lasioglossum sisymbrii

Solitary Bee at Plymouth - Lasioglossum sisymbrii - 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 Halictini

Genus Lasioglossum

No Taxon (Subgenus Lasioglossum)

Species sisymbrii (Lasioglossum sisymbrii)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Halictus sisymbrii Cockerell, 1895; Halictus olympyiae_sic var. subangustus Cockerell, 1898; Halictus olympiae var. subangustus Cockerell, 1898

Explanation of Names

Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) sisymbrii (Cockerell, 1895)

The type specimen was collected on Sisymbrium canescens, a junior synonym of Descurainia pinnata (Western Tansymustard), by its describer T. D. A. Cockerell

Identification

T1 has a complete basal hair band which has sometimes been worn off.

Range

Western half of NA

Discover Life Map

Season

January to November

Food

Visits flowers from several families. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Remarks

Most common and widespread Lasioglossum sp. in the west.

Internet References

Discover Life

iNaturalist

GBIF

ITIS

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 29 September, 2006 - 8:22pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 12:09pm

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