Author Gary Taylor ◦
Still some more from our last cloudy, rainy day out… The one in the first 4 pics I reckon is a male Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes). Male ‘cos even without counting the antennae segments (including the scape and pedicel, it’s 13 in males, 12 in females), his antennae just looks long… And he lacks the scopae (pollen collecting hairs) that the female would have.
But getting back to the wing venation thing again and why I suspect it’s Lasioglossum, to me the basal vein, marked with a blue arrow in the 1st pic,(you might need to expand the pic to see it clearly), looks too curved to be Leioproctus… Tho’ having said that, when the wing is side on like this it’s hard to bee sure…
So to the last pic, a very similar looking bee, but the basal vein (marked with a pinkish-red arrow) looks only slightly curved, so this one, given the bum fluff, I reckon is Leioproctus…
Geraldton, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor
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