Biology:Neolarra cockerelli
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Neolarra |
| Species: | N. cockerelli
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| Binomial name | |
| Neolarra cockerelli (Crawford, 1916)
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Neolarra cockerelli is a species of cuckoo bee in the family Apidae.[3][1] It is quite small and extremely rare.[4] It is distributed from Texas to Tennessee and Georgia in the United States.[2] The wing has only one submarginal cell.[4]
Morphology
Female
Female bees of this species are 3.5 mm long, with a mainly-black head and thorax and a testaceous (brick-colored) abdomen darkening at the tip.[2] Their mandibles are yellowish, narrowly red on the apex; their antennae are yellowish beneath and brownish above.[2] The basal (lower) segments of the legs are dark, and the tibiae and tarsi segments are also testaceous.[2] The mid and hind spurs[clarification needed] are pale yellowish.[2] The wings are subhyaline, or imperfectly transparent, with yellowish to pitch-colored veins.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Neolarra cockerelli (Crawford, 1916)" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/1340855.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Mitchell, Theodore B. (1962). Bees of the Eastern United States. Raleigh: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. https://archive.org/details/beesofeasternuni00mitc/page/490/mode/1up.
- ↑ "Report: Neolarra cockerelli". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=694443#null.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Droege, Sam (September 2015). The Very Handy Manual: How to Catch and Identify Bees. USGS. https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/how-catch-and-identify-bees-and-manage-a-collection.
Wikidata ☰ Q2228654 entry
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