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Golden-tailed Blunt-horn

Melitta haemorrhoidalis

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 447, February 330, March 517, April 813, May 1,172, June 1,278, July 1,368, August 1,176, September 864, October 645, November 352, December 275.
United States9,236
Alaska9,236
Germany117
Netherlands64
Gelderland51
United Kingdom50
England50
Sweden32
Schleswig-Holstein28
Denmark25

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
Familymelittid bees · Melittidae
GenusBlunt-horn Bees · Melitta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Golden-tailed Blunt-horn with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.