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Dark-winged Blood Bee

Sphecodes gibbus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 109, February 81, March 126, April 199, May 286, June 312, July 334, August 287, September 211, October 157, November 86, December 67.
United States2,256
Alaska2,256
Germany3
Greece1
Egean1
France1
Hessen1
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern1
Sachsen1
Normandie1

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
GenusBlood Bees · Sphecodes

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