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Interrupted Resin-Leafcutter

Trachusa interrupta

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in France.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 26, July 38, August 15, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
France79
Spain40
Italy38
Cataluña/Catalunya27
Centre-Val de Loire25
Occitanie21
Nouvelle-Aquitaine16
Centro14
Sud14
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur12

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
GenusTrachusa

Sources

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