Texas Leafcutter

Megachile texana

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megachilidae

Megachile texana, the Texas leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was first described by the American entomologist Ezra Townsend Cresson in 1878. It is native to the United States and southern Canada.

Distribution

Texas Leafcutter — (c) Michelle Orcutt, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 229Canada · 35

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Michelle Orcutt, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMegachile texana, Wikipedia contributors

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