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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) » Melissodes » Subgenus Eumelissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Eumelissodes)
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Leaf cutting bee -- or, Clarkia Bee ?? - Melissodes - male
Copyright © 2004 David A Burke

Leaf cutting bee -- or, Clarkia Bee ?? - Melissodes - Male
5200 ft elevation NW, Wyoming, USA
July 22, 2004
on a sunflower
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Contributed by David A Burke on 26 December, 2004 - 7:30pm
Last updated 19 November, 2009 - 12:55pm

Moved
Moved from Long-horned bees.
… John S. Ascher, 19 November, 2009 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

Melissodes (Eumelissodes) male
resembles agilis
… John S. Ascher, 19 November, 2009 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

Male Eucerini
Nice portrait. This is a male bee (you can tell by the very long antennae) of something in the tribe Eucerini, family Apidae (formerly in the Anthophoridae). My bet would be a Melissodes species, but there is high diversity in genera in Wyoming, and the western U.S. in general.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 December, 2004 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

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