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Genus Eucera

Representative Images

Eucera: bee - Eucera - male Bee on Sticky Geranium. - Eucera frater Unknown Bee - Eucera Something in the Eucerini? - Eucera - male Black Long Horned Bee - Eucera long-horned bee - Eucera hamata Eucera sp.? - Eucera - female Anthophila - Eucera - 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 Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Eucerini (Longhorn Bees)
Genus Eucera

Explanation of Names

Eucera Scopoli 1770
Greek eu- (ευ-) 'good, true' + keras (κερας) 'horn' = "well-horned" (refers to the large antennae in males)

Numbers

in our area, 55 spp. (all in the subgenus Synhalonia, that contains a total of ~100 spp.); 218 spp. in 6 subgenera worldwide(1)

Identification

Males have very long antennae (2)

The clypeus sticks out noticeably when viewed in profile. (2)

The stripes across the abdomen
tend to be in a continuous circle around the abdomen (2)

A wing photo

Range

holarctic (map)(1)

Works Cited

1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
2.The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees.
Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia J. Messinger Carril. 2015. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 7 November, 2006 - 8:17pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 11 February, 2017 - 4:20pm

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