Lasioglossum sp. (genus) at ANBG

Halictid bee at ANBG

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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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