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Neolarra cockerelli

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Neolarra cockerelli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Neolarra
Species:
N. cockerelli
Binomial name
Neolarra cockerelli
(Crawford, 1916)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Macroglossapis cockerelli
  • Phileremulus cockerelli

Neolarra cockerelli is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae.[3][1] It is quite small and extremely rare.[4] It is distributed from Texas to Tennessee and Georgia in the United States.[2] The wing has only one submarginal cell.[4]

Morphology

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Female

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Female bees of this species are 3.5 mm long, with a mainly-black head and thorax and a testaceous (brick-colored) abdomen darkening at the tip.[2] Their mandibles are yellowish, narrowly red on the apex; their antennae are yellowish beneath and brownish above.[2] The basal (lower) segments of the legs are dark, and the tibiae and tarsi segments are also testaceous.[2] The mid and hind spurs[clarification needed] are pale yellowish.[2] The wings are subhyaline, or imperfectly transparent, with yellowish to pitch-colored veins.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Neolarra cockerelli (Crawford, 1916)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Mitchell, Theodore B. (1962). Bees of the Eastern United States. Raleigh: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.
  3. ^ "Report: Neolarra cockerelli". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  4. ^ a b Droege, Sam (September 2015). The Very Handy Manual: How to Catch and Identify Bees. USGS.