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  3. Arthropods
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  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Sweat Bees
  7. Shortface Bees and Allies

subfamily

Shortface Bees and Allies

Rophitinae

Includes
18 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Short-faced Bees 11 native
  • Xeralictus 2 native
  • Conanthalictus 2 native
  • Micralictoides 1 native
  • Sphecodosoma
  • Spiral-horned Bees

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native shortface bees and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Red-tailed Micro-Shortface Micralictoides ruficaudus 361 observations
  • Beebalm Shortface Dufourea monardae 329 observations
  • Phacelia Shortface Dufourea mulleri 196 observations
  • Pickerelweed Shortface Dufourea novaeangliae 164 observations
  • Black Shortface Dufourea maura 76 observations
  • Barrel Cactus Shortface Dufourea echinocacti 54 observations
  • Baker's Phacelia-Shortface Conanthalictus bakeri 54 observations
  • Bicuspidaria Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus bicuspidariae 40 observations
  • All-blue Shortface Dufourea holocyanea 31 observations
  • Dufourea trochantera 23 observations
  • Sunflower Shortface Dufourea marginata 19 observations
  • Timberlake's Blazingstar-Shortface Xeralictus timberlakei 13 observations
  • Dufourea calochorti 10 observations
  • Bellflower Shortface Dufourea campanulae 6 observations
  • Dufourea versatilis 5 observations
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