Dark-winged Blood Bee

Sphecodes gibbus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Halictidae

Sphecodes gibbus, the dark-winged blood bee, is a species of cleptoparasitic blood bee from the Palearctic. It is the type species of the genus Sphecodes and was first described by Carl Linnaeus as Sphex gibba in 1758. Description Sphecodes gibbus is a relatively large Sphecodes species with a body length of around 10mm.

Distribution

Dark-winged Blood Bee — (c) Tina Ellegaard Poulsen, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Tina Ellegaard Poulsen · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Switzerland · 299Germany · 32United Kingdom · 31Luxembourg · 3France · 2Italy · 2

Sources and credits

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