Lasioglossum sp. (genus)

Furrow Bee at Acton, ACT

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Identification history

	Lasioglossum sp. (genus)	24 Feb 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) lanarium	18 Feb 2021	Roger

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3 comments

michael.batley wrote:

18 Feb 2021

What features did you use to decide that it is lanarium and not another species?

Roger wrote:

19 Feb 2021

The only way I can decide is to compare images on Canberra Nature, ALA and iNaturalist and may be Mr Google. We try to put names to the insects I post if possible, not just just insect sp. With lanarium the abdomen, amount of hairs and face looked similar and I thought with the amount of sightings on Canberra Nature, it must be fairly common.

michael.batley wrote:

19 Feb 2021

I agree completely that it is desirable to identify insects to species, but if there are a dozen species consistent with the same set of images, I don't see how it helps to make a guess of one name from the dozen. In the present case, if you can say that the bee was 10 mm long and not 7 or 8 mm, I would say it was probably L. lanarium.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.107490 -35.276642
Altitude 555.6m
Maps ANBG
Places Acton, ACT

Sighting information

5 Abundance
17 Feb 2021 11:01 AM Recorded on
Roger Recorded by
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Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) Roger Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

5mm to 12mm Animal size

Species information

Lasioglossum sp. (genus) Scientific name
Furrow Bee Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1331.6m Recorded at altitude
113 images trained Machine learning
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