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Lasioglossum sp. (genus)

Furrow Bee at Acton, ACT

Lasioglossum sp. (genus) at Acton, ACT - 17 Feb 2021
Lasioglossum sp. (genus) at Acton, ACT - 17 Feb 2021
Lasioglossum sp. (genus) at Acton, ACT - 17 Feb 2021
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Lasioglossum sp. (genus) 24 Feb 2021 MichaelMulvaney
Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) lanarium 18 Feb 2021 Roger

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3 comments

   18 Feb 2021
What features did you use to decide that it is lanarium and not another species?
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   19 Feb 2021
The only way I can decide is to compare images on Canberra Nature, ALA and iNaturalist and may be Mr Google. We try to put names to the insects I post if possible, not just just insect sp. With lanarium the abdomen, amount of hairs and face looked similar and I thought with the amount of sightings on Canberra Nature, it must be fairly common.
   19 Feb 2021
I agree completely that it is desirable to identify insects to species, but if there are a dozen species consistent with the same set of images, I don't see how it helps to make a guess of one name from the dozen. In the present case, if you can say that the bee was 10 mm long and not 7 or 8 mm, I would say it was probably L. lanarium.

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