Eucera longicornis
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Eucera longicornis is a bee from the family of Apidae .
features
The bees have a body length of 13 to 15 millimeters (females) or 12 to 15 millimeters (males). The females are hairy brown. Your splint brush (Scopa) is white. The matt mesonotum is structured almost honeycomb point-like. The second tergite has only a few spots at the end edge, there are no clearly recognizable white hair spots on the side. The third tergite has indistinctly demarcated hair spots. The males are hairy red-brown, the hairs on the third to seventh tergite are black. The labrum and the frontal plate ( clypeus ) are yellow. The matt mesonotum has a dense, punctiform structure. The tergites have no bands at the rear edge. The slightly widened heel phalanx (metatarsus) on the hind legs is curved forward.
Occurrence and way of life
The species is distributed throughout Europe, with the exception of the far north. Pollen is exclusively of leguminous plants collected (Faboideae). In the Mediterranean area, the males often pollinate orchids of the genus Ophrys . These imitate female bees in appearance and smell ( mimicry ). When attempting copulation ("pseudocopulation"), the males thus attracted are attached to a pollen package with which they fly to the next flower.
The animals fly from mid-April to early August. Cuckoo bee of the species is Nomada sexfasciata .
literature
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hannes F. Paulus: How insect males are deceived by orchid flowers - pollination tricks and evolution in the Mediterranean ragwort genus Ophrys . In: Denisia . tape 20 , 2007, p. 255–294 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
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