Tepanec Long Horned Bee

Melissodes tepaneca Cresson 1879

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Melissodes tepaneca (Tepanec Long Horned Bee) is a species of Hymenoptera in the family Apidae. They visit flowers of Ruth's milkweed, gumbo limbo, Texas poppy-mallow, and Pickerel Weed.

EOL has data for 8 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Monochoria vaginalis (Burm. fil.) C. Presl (Pickerel Weed)
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Mexico
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3996063
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type specimen repository
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
- Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
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(INHS) - Illinois Natural History Survey
visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Stokesia laevis (Hill) Greene (Stokes' aster)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Asclepias uncialis subsp. ruthiae (Maguire) J. T. Kartesz & K. N. Gandhi (Ruth's milkweed)

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Tepanec Long-horned Bee. View this species on GBIF

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