Megachile alpicola
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Megachile alpicola is a species from the genus Megachile ( leaf cutter and mortar bees ) from the order of the hymenoptera .
features
With a body length of 7.5 to 10 mm, Megachile alpicola is a small species of leaf cutter and can easily be confused with the very similar Megachile centuncularis . The tarsus limbs are red-brown. The 9 to 10 mm large females have protruding black hairs on the 6th tergite . The sternites of the 7.5 to 9 mm large males have long, loose end fringes.
distribution
The distribution area of Megachile alpicola extends boreomontaneously from Northern and Central Europe to Central Asia . In Central Europe it occurs mainly in the high and low mountain ranges, only sporadically in the lowlands. Megachile alpicola prefers clearings and outskirts of forest areas in mountains up to 2000 meters high.
Way of life
Megachile alpicola lives solitary like most leafcutter bees. The flight time starts in June and ends in August. Be Flew the flowers of buttercups , bird's-foot trefoil , alfalfa , vetch , grass pea , fireweed , thyme , knapweed and various other composite flowers .
Boreholes or feeding tunnels in processed wood or old tree trunks and stumps are used for nesting. The ground is also accepted as a nesting place. The walls of the brood cells are built from leaf cuttings from forest strawberries .
literature
- Manfred Dorn, Dieter Weber: The alfalfa leaf cutter bee and its relatives in Central Europe. Megachile rotundata a. a. In: The New Brehm Library . Volume 582, Ziemsen, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1988, ISBN 3-7403-0047-7 , p. 85.
Web links
- Megachile alpicola at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved June 16, 2011