Furrow Bees Lat. “Halictus“
The genus Halictus is a large assemblage of bee species in the family Halictidae. The genus is divided into 15 subgenera, some of dubious monophyly, containing over 200 species, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere (a few species occur in South America, Asia and Africa). Most species are black or dark brown, sometimes metallic greenish-tinted, with apical whitish abdominal bands on the terga (the related genus Lasioglossum, which is otherwise often similar in appearance, has the abdominal…
Hierarchy
Species
Species within this genus include:
References
Michener, C.D. (2007). The Bees of the World. 2nd Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press.
External links
Halictus Identification Guide Worldwide Species Map
Ancestry Graph
Further Information
„Furrow Bees“ on wikipedia.org
„Furrow Bees“ on iNaturalist.org
Copyright
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