Osmia rufinoides

Taxonomy

Family: Megachilidae
Subfamily: Megachilinae
Tribe: Osmiini
Genus: Osmia Panzer, 1806
Subgenus: O. (Osmia) Panzer, 1806
Species: Osmia rufinoides Wu, 2004
Common name: red mason bee

Overview

Osmia rufinoides are black bees with long black to brown hairs on most of the head and light yellow hair around the antennal sockets and on the genagena:
the cheek or side of the head
(Wu 2004Wu 2004:
Wu, Y. 2004. Ten new species of the tribe Osmiini from China (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 531ndash;537.). The thorax and T1T1:
the segments on the top side of the abdomen, often abbreviated when referring to a specific segment to T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, or T7
are covered with long yellow hairs, T2–T4 have black to brown hair with yellow apicalapical:
near or at the apex or end of any structure
hair bandsbands:
usually referring to bands of hair or bands of color that traverse across an abdominal segment
, and T6T6:
the segments on the top side of the abdomen, often abbreviated when referring to a specific segment to T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, or T7
has dense short black to brown hair (Wu 2004Wu 2004:
Wu, Y. 2004. Ten new species of the tribe Osmiini from China (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 531ndash;537.). Females body length is 12–13 mm (Wu 2004Wu 2004:
Wu, Y. 2004. Ten new species of the tribe Osmiini from China (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 531ndash;537.).

Phenology

unknown

Host associations 

unknown

Nesting behavior 

unknown

Distribution

Osmia rufinoides has been recorded in Shanghai, China (Wu 2004Wu 2004:
Wu, Y. 2004. Ten new species of the tribe Osmiini from China (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 531ndash;537.).

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References

Wu, Y. 2004. Ten new species of the tribe Osmiini from China (Apoidea, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 531-537.

Wu. Y. 2006. Hymenoptera: Megachilidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta: 44: 1-474.