Xenoglossa

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)

Xenoglossa

Other forms of name

Gourd bees

Squash bees

See Also From tracing topical name

Anthophoridae

MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q14487996

Library of congress: sh 87020373

Sources of Information

NUCMC data from Smithsonian Inst. Archives for Hurd, P.D. Papers, ca. 1938-1982(squash bees and gourd bees)
Hurd, P.D. Classification of the squash and gourd bees peponapis and xenoglossa, 1970:pp. 8-9 (squash and gourd bees, genus Peponapis (13 species), genus Xenoglossa (7 species)) p. 37 (squash and gourd bees (Peponapis and Xenoglossa) whose females gather pollen exclusively from species of Cucurbita (squashes, gourds, and pumpkins))

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Histiostoma inquilinus on Xenoglossa sternua BMOC 04-1222-149

Photo by Pavel Klimov, Bee Mite ID (idtools.org/id/mites/beemites) unless otherwise stated in description., Public domain

File:Histiostoma inquilinus on Xenoglossa sternua BMOC 04-1222-149.jpg

Photo by Pavel Klimov, Bee Mite ID (idtools.org/id/mites/beemites) unless otherwise stated in description., Public domain

Wikipedia description:

Xenoglossa is a genus of large squash bees in the family Apidae. There are about 11 described species in Xenoglossa.