Sphecodes

Sphecodes
Sphecodes gibbus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Halictidae
Genus:	Sphecodes Latreille, 1804
Type species
Sphecodes gibbus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
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Sphecodes is a genus of bees from the family Halictidae, the majority of which are black and red in colour and are colloquially known as "blood bees".Sphecodes bees are cleptoparasitic on other bees, especially bees in the genera Lasioglossum, Halictus and Andrena. The adults consume nectar and are polylectic but because they use other bees to bring up their offspring they do not collect pollen.

There are 349 known species in the genus Sphecodes.

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