Epeolus productulus
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Epeolus productulus is a bee from the family of Apidae .
features
The bees are 6 to 8 millimeters long. The body of the females is predominantly colored black, their mandibles , the labrum , the calli, the scutellum , the sternites and the legs, and in some individuals also individual tergites are red. There are white felt spots on the head, thorax and tergites. The first tergite has two elongated hair spots lying one behind the other on both sides, which often merge on the outside. The second tergite has two, the third and fourth four hair spots on the rear edge. The labrum is slightly arched and has two teeth in the middle, on the almost straight front edge there is another tooth in the middle. The forehead keel is somewhat blunt. When viewed in profile, the vertex is flat up to the rear edge. The fifth to eleventh antennae are shorter than they are wide. The fifth sternite is about as long as it is wide and saddle-in at the end. The males look similar to the females, but have less red components. Their antennae are significantly shorter than they are wide. The second and third sternite are irregularly structured, the spaces between the points are often larger than the points. These sternites also have continuous bands on the rear edge.
In females the labrum looks similar to that of Epeolus cruciger , the fifth sternite is similar in Epeolus variegatus .
Occurrence and way of life
The species is widespread in southern Europe, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. The animals fly from late June to early August. They probably parasitize Colletes mlokossewici .
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 .