''Nomada succincta'' is a species of

bee Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamil ...

in the family

Apidae Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for ...

. It is known commonly as the yellow-legged nomad-bee. This species is often confused with '' Nomada goodeniana'' and the two names may be listed as

synonyms A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...

. Molecular analysis confirms that they are separate species. Diestelhorst, O., & Lunau, K. (2008)
Beitrag zur Klärung des Artstatus von ''Nomada goodeniana'' (Kirby, 1802) und ''Nomada succincta'' Panzer, 1798 (Hymenoptera, Apidae).
''Entomologie heute'', 20, 165-171.

Gallery

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Dandelion ''Taraxacum'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions. The scientific and hobby study of the genus is known as taraxacology. The genus has a near-cosmopolitan distribu ...

References

Nomadinae Insects described in 1798 Taxa named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer {{Nomadinae-stub