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Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee
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Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee

Megachile xylocopoides

Megachile xylocopoides, the carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Smith in 1853 and named for its superficial similarity to the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa

Its range is the United States from eastern Texas to southeast Pennsylvania.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 323780.