western leafcutter
Megachile perihirta
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
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Megachile perihirta, commonly known as the Western leafcutting bee, is a bee in the genus Megachile. The bee is native to western North America, ranging from Nebraska to Texas and Mexico, west to California, and north to British Columbia and Alberta, and often inhabits meadows and orchards. The bee is black with long whitish-yellow hair, more so below the thorax and abdomen.
Megachile es un género de abejas en la familia Megachilidae. Son de distribución cosmopolita, son abejas solitarias, a menudo denominadas abejas cortadoras de hojas aunque no todas cortan hojas. Este es uno de los géneros de abejas con más especies, unas mil quinientas dentro de cincuenta subgéneros.
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