Anthophora biciliata
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| Lepeletier , 1841 |
Anthophora biciliata is a bee from the family of Apidae .
features
The bees have a body length of 17 to 18 millimeters and are therefore relatively large. The females resemble bumblebees . Your head, thorax and the first two tergites are brown-gray, the third to sixth tergites are darkly haired. On tergites one and two there are indistinct light-colored end bands. The rail brush (Scopa) is white, its upper edge is yellow. The cheeks are about as long as the antennae are wide. The males have yellow markings on their faces. The thorax is hairy gray-brown on the back like the first two tergites, tergites three to seven are black, the underside of the body is hairy white. On the second and third tergite a light-colored end band is clearly recognizable. As with the females, the cheeks are as broad as the antennae. The seventh tergite has a pygidial plate . The heel phalanx (metatarsus) of the middle legs has long, white hairs on the rear edge. These are twice as long as the tarsal links are wide. The claw link has black hair fringes on both sides.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed from Algeria and Spain via southern France, the Aosta Valley to Hungary and Greece. It flies from mid-May to mid-July. The females create their nests in the ground. Cuckoo bees of the species are unknown.
supporting documents
Felix Amiet, M. Herrmann, A. Müller, R. Neumeyer: Fauna Helvetica 20: Apidae 5 . Center Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune, 2007, ISBN 978-2-88414-032-4 .