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Status
Associated with woodlands, feeding on the vernal flora of the woods and nearby fields. Nests in rotten wood.
Description
There are no other Lasioglossum, at least in the eastern U.S., so extensively and uniformly blue. It is so blue that it is often mistaken for an Osmia. (S. Droege/USGS PWRC, pers. comm.)
Nests are categorized as rotten logs, and social behavior is categorized as primitively eusocial or semisocial (Selfridge et al., 2017).
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A female Lasioglossum coeruleum collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (1/6/2013). Photo by Brooke Alexander.
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A female Lasioglossum coeruleum collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (1/6/2013). Photo by Brooke Alexander.
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A female Lasioglossum coeruleum collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (1/6/2013). Photo by Brooke Alexander.
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A Lasioglossum coeruleum in Connecticut (11/6/2018).
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Source: Wikipedia
Lasioglossum coeruleum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Halictidae |
Tribe: | Halictini |
Genus: | Lasioglossum |
Species: | L. coeruleum
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Binomial name | |
Lasioglossum coeruleum (Robertson, 1893)
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Lasioglossum coeruleum is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lasioglossum coeruleum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Lasioglossum coeruleum". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Lasioglossum coeruleum species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019). "Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Lasioglossum coeruleum at Wikimedia Commons