Megachile sp. (several subgenera)

Resin Bees at Yarralumla, ACT

Megachile sp. (several subgenera) at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2017
Megachile sp. (several subgenera) at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2017
Megachile sp. (several subgenera) at Yarralumla, ACT - 23 Jan 2017
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Identification history

Megachile sp. (several subgenera) 25 May 2017 MichaelMulvaney
Megachile (Hackeriapis) tosticauda 22 Mar 2017 michaelb
Megachile tosticauda 21 Mar 2017 PeterA

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4 comments

   22 Mar 2017
There is a different bee in each picture. Image 1 is a male leaf-cutter bee that looks to me like M. maculariformis, but the details are not clear enough to be certain. Image 2 is of a female resin bee, which appears to be too large to be M. tosticauda. It may be M. heliophila, but there are other possibilities.
michaelb wrote:
   22 Mar 2017
Thanks Michael.
Peter, can you please edit this sighting. Remove the second photo and put it in as a new sighting.
PeterA wrote:
   23 Mar 2017
Thanks, Michael. Sorry I mixed up a couple of images there. I have separated them to two sightings and added a couple more images, which may or may not make ID easier. I still think the one above may be tosticauda - I have a specimen which is 10mm. The second one (new record now), I don't know. How did you know it was male?
michaelb wrote:
   23 Mar 2017
Thanks Peter, that's great. Bees can be difficult to ID and the more details we can see on the animals the better.

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  • 23 Jan 2017 10:25 AM Recorded on
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