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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees (Megachilini) » Leafcutter and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Eutricharaea (Megachile Subgenus Eutricharaea) » Megachile pusilla

Species Megachile pusilla

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References
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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 Megachilidae (Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies)
Subfamily Megachilinae (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives)
Tribe Megachilini (Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees)
Genus Megachile (Leafcutter and Resin Bees)
No Taxon (Subgenus Eutricharaea)
Species pusilla (Megachile pusilla)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Megachile concinna auct., in part
Size
Female 9mm. Male: 7mm.
Range
Florida and Alabama to Pennsylvania and Ohio in the East, and established as far west as California
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Food
The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Remarks
Introduced, probably from southern Europe or North Africa
Print References
See: When different contact zones tell different stories: putative ring species in the Megachile concinna species complex (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) by GITI GHAZI SOLTANI, DIMITRI BÉNON, NADIR ALVAREZ, AND CHRISTOPHE J. PRAZ in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2017, 121, 815–832
Internet References
Discover Life
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 1 September, 2013 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 11 December, 2021 - 4:18pm

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