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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 Nomadopsis sensu lato (Calliopsis Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato) » Calliopsis zonalis

Species Calliopsis zonalis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Calliopsis zonalis on Monardella - Calliopsis zonalis - male - 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 Andrenidae (Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees)
Subfamily Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)
Tribe Calliopsini (Calliopsine Bees)
Genus Calliopsis
No Taxon (Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato)
Species zonalis (Calliopsis zonalis)
Explanation of Names
Calliopsis zonalis Cresson 1879
Size
7‒11 mm
Identification
unique among Calliopsis (Nomadopsis) in having extremely long mouthparts and preponderance of yellow markings on head, legs, and metasoma of both sexes
Range
CA(1)
Habitat
Montane
Season
Jun‒Aug
Food
Apparently oligolectic on Monardella species
Print References
Rozen J.G. (1958) Monographic study of the genus Nomadopsis Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). U. Calif. Pub. Entomol. 15.
Internet References
species page(1)
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Keng-Lou James Hung on 29 July, 2013 - 10:53am
Additional contributions by v belov, hg
Last updated 13 March, 2024 - 7:29pm

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