Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee

Megachile mendica

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megachilidae

Megachile mendica, the flat-tailed leafcutter bee, is a species of solitary bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Ezra Townsend Cresson in 1878. The Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee uses leaf pieces as nesting materials.

Distribution

Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee — (c) Even Dankowicz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 645Canada · 50Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Even Dankowicz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMegachile mendica, Wikipedia contributors

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