Page 2 · Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) - 343 Species, Identification & Facts

Pruinose Squash Bee

Peponapis pruinosa

Identification: Clypeus protuberant and with a small apical yellow spot in males. Females with widely spaced scopal hairs not hiding integument of tibia. Complete bands of frosty hairs on the abdomen. Male antennae relatively short. Smaller than Xeno

Hibiscus Turret Bee

Ptilothrix bombiformis

Identification: Arolia are absent. In the female, the scopa of the hind tibiae and the basitarsi is of finely plumose, elongate hairs. Ground nesters. Entrance to nests have a turret.

Triepeolus eliseae

Identification: Note oval pseudopygidial area The species was described by Molly G. Rightmyer in a monograph of Michigan bees by J. Gibbs et al.

Triepeolus kathrynae

Identification: Hairs yellower (less white) than T. grandis http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/5111

Triepeolus lunatus

Types: Holotype: Epeolus lunatus male and female Say 1825. Locality: Missouri. British Museum of Natural History – type lost. Lectotype: Epeolus lunatus concolor female by Robertson 1898, #8174. Locality Illinois July 24, 1888. In Illinois Natural

Triepeolus pectoralis

Types: Holotype Epeolus pectoralis female Sept 18, 1893 by Robertson, 1897. #15626. Locality: Illinois. In Illinois Natural History Survey. Webb 1980; Lectotype designated by LaBerge. Lectotype Triepeolus pectoralis male by Robertson, 1897. Locality

Triepeolus remigatus

Types: Holotype Melecta remigata Fabricius 1804: 387 [Carolina] [Type lost?]. Holotype Epeolus superbus female by Provancher 1895. #1734 Locality: Los Angeles, California. In Université Laval, Quebec, Collection of Provancher. Holotype Epeolus texanu

Triepeolus simplex

Types: Lectotype Triepeolus simplex female by Robertson 1903. #18665 or #3600. Locality Carlinville, Illinois Aug 14, 1896. In Illinois Natural History Survey. Lectotype designated by LaBerge June 20, 1996. Michigan Museum of Natural History has 4 Tr

Xenoglossa strenua

member of the subgenus Eoxenoglossa (2 spp., both restricted to the US & n. Mexico)

Xenoglossodes wilmattae

Type Locality: Port Isabel, Cameron Co., Texas (Cockerell, 1917)

Xylocopa griswoldi

Identification: Can be identified with reference to wing color, shape of the scutellum, and distribution Confounded in many publications with X. mexicanorum

Southern Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa micans

Identification: Male similar to the more widespread X. virginica , but male micans has greenish-blue abdomen rather than purple. Female micans is black and with purple body (all black in virginica ).

Valley Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa sonorina

Identification: Female is black with brassy reflections, perhaps. Male is a striking tawny brown. Apparently, no other Xylocopa are so sexually dimorphic. Males: ] ] Females: 4/17/2020 introduced Name change based on Sheffield C, Heron J, Musetti L (

Zacosmia maculata

Identification: Diagnostic characters include: fusiform (tapered at both ends, with median segments thickened) male flagellum; the marginal cell is ~ half as long as the distance from cell apex to wing tip. Cleptoparasite of Anthophora (Heliophila) ,

Ancyloscelis apiformis

Anthophora abroniae

Anthophora abrupta

Anthophora bomboides

Anthophora capistrata

Anthophora centriformis

Anthophora crotchii

Anthophora fedorica

Anthophora flavocincta

Anthophora hololeuca

Anthophora montana

Anthophora mortuaria

Anthophora occidentalis

Anthophora pacifica

Anthophora phaceliae

Anthophora pueblo

Anthophora terminalis

Urbane Digger Bee

Anthophora urbana

Anthophora ursina

Anthophora villosula

Anthophora walshii

Anthophorula chionura

Anthophorula compactula

Anthophorula micheneri

Anthophorula nitens

Anthophorula palmarum

Anthophorula torticornis

Asian Honey Bee

Apis cerana

Bombus ashtoni

Northern Amber Bumble Bee

Bombus borealis

Great Basin Bumble Bee

Bombus centralis

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus citrinus

Crotch's Bumble Bee

Bombus crotchii

Golden Northern Bumble Bee

Bombus fervidas

Northern Golden Bumble Bee

Bombus fervidus

Frigid Bumble Bee

Bombus frigidus

Brown-belted Bumble Bee

Bombus griseocollis

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus impatiens

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Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus insularis

McKay's Bumble Bee

Bombus mckayi

Black-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus melanopygus

Polar Bumble Bee

Bombus polaris

Sanderson's Bumble Bee

Bombus sandersoni

Tricolored Bumble Bee

Bombus ternarius

Vancouver Bumble Bee

Bombus vancouverensis

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee

Bombus vosnesenskii

Brachymelecta interrupta

Brachymelecta larreae

Brachynomada annectens

Brachynomada margaretae

Densely-punctate Smooth-Nomad

Brachynomada nimia

Cemolobus ipomoeae

Centris caesalpiniae

Centris cockerelli

Centris errans

Centris flavofasciata

Centris hoffmanseggiae

Centris lanosa

Centris nitida

Ceratina acantha

Ceratina arizonensis

Ceratina calcarata

Ceratina cobaltina

Ceratina cockerelli

Ceratina floridana

Ceratina mikmaqi

Ceratina nanula

Ceratina sequoiae

Diadasia australis

Diadasia bituberculata

Sunflower Chimney Bee

Diadasia enavata

Diadasia ochracea

Diadasia rinconis

Diadasia tropicalis

Epeoloides pilosulus

Epeolus australus

Epeolus axillaris

Epeolus barberiellus

Epeolus carolinus

Epeolus compactus

Epeolus flavofasciatus

Epeolus floridensis

Epeolus glabratus

Epeolus howardi

Epeolus interruptus

Epeolus mesillae