Neolarra
| Neolarra | |
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| Neolarra pruinosa Female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Tribe: | |
| Genus: | Neolarra Ashmead, 1890 |
Neolarra is a genus of cuckoo bees in the family Apidae. There are about 16 described species in Neolarra, all from North America.[1][2][3][4]
Description[]
Smaller than a grain of rice, these bees lay eggs in the nests of Perdita bees; the Neolarra egg hatches and the larva eats the egg and food store intended for a Perdita larva. It enters while the host bee is gone to avoid detection.[5]
Species[]
These 16 species belong to the genus Neolarra:
- Cockerell, 1916 i c g
- Griswold & Parker, 1999 i c g
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- Neolarra californica Michener, 1939 i c g b
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- (Crawford, 1916) i c g
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- Michener, 1939 i c g
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- Ashmead, 1890 i c g
- Shanks, 1978 i c g
- Griswold & Parker, 1999 i c g
- Michener, 1939 i c g
- Neolarra verbesinae (Cockerell, 1895) i c g b
- Neolarra vigilans (Cockerell, 1895) i c g b
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References[]
- ^ a b "Neolarra Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "Browse Neolarra". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "Neolarra". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ a b "Neolarra Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ Emry, Paige. Our Native Bees. p. 76.
Further reading[]
- Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019). "Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
External links[]
Media related to Neolarra at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Nomadinae
- Nomadinae stubs