Amegilla BeeApical tergites of females Amegilla Body Colour Amegilla adelaidae Amegilla aeruginosa Amegilla asserta Amegilla chlorocyanea Amegilla walkeri Teddy Bear Bees (Asaropoda)
In the genus Amegilla, there are over 250 species of blue-banded bees, of which only a few actually possess blue bands on their abdomens. The ones with blue bands are primarily those species belonging to the Notomegilla and Zonamegilla subgenera
It is a fact that they are not all blue. Some can be white, yellow, pale green and variations and mixes in between.
And when we thought it was easy… the same species with two different coloured banding…
And not all species of the genus Amegilla have the distinctive banding…
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Informal: Apiformes
- Family: Apidae
- Subfamily: Apinae
- Tribe: Anthophorini
- Genus: Amegilla
Footnote & References
- Blue-banded Bees (Armegilla) Photographs © Deb Taylor, Dorothy Latimer, Gary Taylor, Marc Newman, Phil Warburton, Shane Dighton
Amegilla BeeApical tergites of females Amegilla Body Colour Amegilla adelaidae Amegilla aeruginosa Amegilla asserta Amegilla chlorocyanea Amegilla walkeri Teddy Bear Bees (Asaropoda)
Amegilla BeeApical tergites of females Amegilla Amegilla Bee Body Colour Amegilla adelaidae Amegilla aeruginosa Amegilla asserta Amegilla chlorocyanea Amegilla walkeri Teddy Bear Bees (Asaropoda)
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