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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Oxaeine Bees (Oxaeinae) » Protoxaea » Protoxaea gloriosa
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Unknown Bee - Protoxaea gloriosa
Copyright © 2014 Clifford Powell

Unknown Bee - Protoxaea gloriosa
Bitter Lake NWR, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA
July 12, 2014
There were a number of these in flight, as is this one, with each one seeming to guard their own area. If one bee came into another bee's area that would result in a confrontation of some sort.

Would appreciate an ID.
TIA - -
Cliff
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Contributed by Clifford Powell on 17 July, 2014 - 4:37pm
Last updated 19 July, 2014 - 8:44am

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 19 July, 2014 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
Looks like Protoxaea gloriosa
… hg, 19 July, 2014 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

 
Protoxaea gloriosa
Thank you for the ID.
Cliff - - -
… Clifford Powell, 19 July, 2014 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

 
Yes
A male
… John S. Ascher, 19 July, 2014 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

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