Alice Springs Fauna •
Alice Springs BeesAmegilla Bee Braunsapis sp Bright-white Masked Bee Bush Bee Ceylalictus perditellus European Honey Bee Exoneurella eremophila Golden-browed Resin Bee Lasioglossum (Homalictus) Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) Lipotriches Megachile deanii Red-headed Masked Bee Stenotritidae genus Stenotritus Xanthesma (Xenohesma)
This Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) was rescued from a pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
At time of writing this, Atlas of Living Australia only has this bee from subgenus Parasphecodes mapped along the coastal areas from Queensland around to south-west of Western Australia and Tasmania.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Suborder: Apocrita
- Infraorder: Aculeata
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Epifamily Anthophila
- Family: Halictidae
- Subfamily: Halictinae
- Tribe: Halictini
- Genus: Lasioglossum
- Subgenus: Parasphecodes
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Kit Prendergast, The Buzz on Wild Bees, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/buzzonwildbees/
- Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) Smith, 1853, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/340d2d97-9e36-4a4d-9fe9-8d7f7e3bdcfe
- Subgenus Parasphecodes, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/571277-Parasphecodes
Alice Springs BeesAmegilla Bee Braunsapis sp Bright-white Masked Bee Bush Bee Ceylalictus perditellus European Honey Bee Exoneurella eremophila Golden-browed Resin Bee Lasioglossum (Homalictus) Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) Lipotriches Megachile deanii Red-headed Masked Bee Stenotritidae genus Stenotritus Xanthesma (Xenohesma)
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