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Auriferous Green Sweat Bee

Augochlora aurifera

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 23, February 22, March 25, April 47, May 29, June 14, July 13, August 13, September 15, October 16, November 21, December 21.
United States258
Texas258
Mexico55
Nuevo Leon25
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave13
Jalisco3
Sinaloa3
Chiapas2
Queretaro de Arteaga2
Coahuila de Zaragoza1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilySweat Bees · Halictidae
GenusAugochlora

Sources

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