Sphecodes gibbus

Sphecodes gibbus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Halictidae
Genus: Sphecodes
Species:
S. gibbus
Binomial name
Sphecodes gibbus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Sphex gibba Linnaeus, 1758
  • Apis glabra Füessly, 1775
  • Andrena ferruginea Olivier, 1789
  • Apis gibbosa Christ, 1791
  • Melitta picea Kirby, 1802
  • Melitta sphecoides Kirby, 1802
  • Andrena austriaca Fabricius, 1804
  • Dichroa analis Illiger, 1806
  • Sphecodes apicatus Smith, 1853
  • Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876
  • Sphecodes sutor Nurse, 1903
  • Sphecodes nippon Meyer, 1922
  • Sphecodes castilianus Blüthgen, 1924
  • Sphecodes lustrans Cockerell, 1931
  • Sphecodes pergibbus Blüthgen, 1938

Sphecodes gibbus, the dark-winged blood bee, is a species of cleptoparasitic blood bee from the Palearctic. It is the type species of the genus Sphecodes and was first described by Carl Linnaeus as Sphex gibba in 1758.

Sphecodes gibbus
  1. ^ Petr Bogusch; Jakob Straka (2012). "Review and identification of the cuckoo bees of central Europe (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Sphecodes)". Zootaxa. 3311: 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3311.1.1.