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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 Xanthosarus (Megachile Subgenus Xanthosarus)
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Megachile - female
Copyright © 2013 Hartmut Wisch

Megachile - Female
Teton Pass area, elev. 2350 m, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
September 6, 2013
Size: ~ 14 mm
Visiting Aster.
Subgenus Litomegachile per Robbin Thorp. Also found this Coelioxys in the same area. Litomegachile is one of the host groups of Boreocoelioxys (per Robbin Thorp):

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 16 September, 2013 - 1:17am
Last updated 2 June, 2014 - 10:57pm

Moved
Moved from Leaf-cutter and Resin Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 1 March, 2014 - 2:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Litomegachile.
… John S. Ascher, 7 February, 2014 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

Doesn't look like that subgenus to me
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… John S. Ascher, 7 February, 2014 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John,
but do you have another suggestion? Of course, I should take a specimen next time. Sure would like to learn the subgenera of this genus.
… Hartmut Wisch, 7 February, 2014 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
Looks like subgenus Xanthosarus (cf. perihirta)
doesn't resemble subgenus Litomegachile
… John S. Ascher, 11 February, 2014 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John,
Now there's some similarity I recall.
… Hartmut Wisch, 11 February, 2014 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf-cutting and Resin Bees.
… Hartmut Wisch, 4 October, 2013 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

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