Elegant Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile concinna Smith, 1879Non-native    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Hymenoptera   >   Family Megachilidae   >   Genus Megachile   

Status:

"Accidentally introduced in North America (or possibly naturally colonized)" (Scarpulla, 2013). "In North America, this uncommon, introduced species is mostly associated with disturbed urban areas"(Droege, in litt.).

There are 7 records in the project database.

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A female Elegant Leaf-cutter Bee (lateral) collected in Puerto Rico by Sara Prado. Photographed by Brooke Alexander. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Elegant Leaf-cutter Bee (face) collected in Puerto Rico by Sara Prado. Photographed by Brooke Alexander. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Elegant Leaf-cutter Bee (dorsal) collected in Puerto Rico by Sara Prado. Photographed by Brooke Alexander. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)


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