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Seven-toothed Red Resin bee

Rhodanthidium septemdentatum

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in France.January 0, February 0, March 10, April 87, May 186, June 119, July 36, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
France438
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur257
Italy217
Spain165
Occitanie149
Cataluña/Catalunya115
Portugal79
Centro72
Greece59
Nord-Est59

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
FamilyMason, Leafcutter, Carder, and Resin Bees · Megachilidae
GenusRhodanthidium

Sources

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