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Augochlorella
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Augochlorella is a genus in the bee family Halictidae, commonly called sweat bees. They display metallic coloration, ranging from reddish to gold to bluish green, as is typical for other genera in the tribe Augochlorini.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7,331
- With media
- 167
- Family
- Halictidae
- Collections
- MZFC-FC-UNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Identification and appearance
- Origin and distribution
- Sexual dimorphism
- Sociality
- Nesting
- Ecological and economic importance
- Parasites
- Predators
- Flight
- Species
- References
- Further reading
Augochlorella is a genus in the bee family Halictidae, commonly called sweat bees. They display metallic coloration, ranging from reddish to gold to bluish green, as is typical for other genera in the tribe Augochlorini.
== Identification and appearance == Augochlorella are very small sweat bees that are easily confused with the related genus Augochlora but differentiated by the pointed tip of the marginal cell (squared off in Augochlora), an orthogonal epistomal sulcus, and no strong basal lobe on the inner metatibial spur.. These features can only be viewed under a microscope.thumb|Augochlorella pomoniella
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Augochlorella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.