Metallic Green Nomia Bee
S2, Male, Wing Venation
Ellura
Metallic Green Nomia Bee
S2, Male, Antenna
 
                      
Metallic Green Nomia Bee (Lipotriches flavoviridis)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Small Bee (Bee: Halictidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Metallic Green Nomia Bee (Lipotriches flavoviridis)
This Photo:     S1, Female, Face
Other name: Yellow-green Austral-Nomia

Thank you Dr Ken Walker & Asaph (asaph01) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long.
Ken Walker said "Two characters in your image show this is not a Homalictus.
1. The large amount of hair on the hind legs (especially the hind femur and tibia). Homalictus carries its pollen load on the underneath of its abdomen.
2. The wing photo shows an elongate (much longer than the 2nd submarginal cell) and strong 3rd submarginal cell. In Homalictus, the 3rd submarginal cell is about the same length as the 2nd submarginal cell but the veins are weaker than those veins of the 2nd submarginal cell"

Copyright © 2015-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 11-Feb-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.