White-footed Green Furrow-bee - Lasioglossum leucopus
One of four small, metallic Lasioglossum species. Males are easily distinguished from the others by the pale yellow mid and hind tarsi. Females resemble L. morio but are stockier with a shinier thorax and propodeum, and lack minute transverse ridges on the apical depression of tergite 2.
Found in a range of habitats foraging on a wide variety of flowers.
Females may be found between May and October, males between July and September. As with all Lasioglossum in Britain, only mated females hibernate.
A possible host of Sphecodes geoffrellus.
This is a widespread and locally common species.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Common names
- White-footed Furrow Bee
- Species group:
- Bees, Wasps, Ants
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Family:
- Halictidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 27/05/2017 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 20/06/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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