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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Epimelissodes » Subgenus Epimelissodes (Epimelissodes Subgenus Epimelissodes) » Epimelissodes atripes
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Melissodes sp - Epimelissodes atripes
Copyright © 2013 Kristy Baker

Melissodes sp - Epimelissodes atripes
Rutherford, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA
August 19, 2013
Bee on Joe Pye Weed.

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Melissodes sp - Epimelissodes atripes Melissodes sp - Epimelissodes atripes
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Contributed by Kristy Baker on 23 August, 2013 - 8:13pm
Last updated 11 February, 2014 - 1:29am

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Epimelissodes.
… John S. Ascher, 11 February, 2014 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 24 August, 2013 - 2:03am login or register to post comments

looks like Svastra atripes
if so a new state record
… John S. Ascher, 24 August, 2013 - 2:02am login or register to post comments

 
Do you need additional photos?
Let me know. Thx
… Kristy Baker, 24 August, 2013 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
I'm quite confident in the species ID
The black legs are quite distinctive
… John S. Ascher, 11 February, 2014 - 1:28am login or register to post comments

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