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ACULEATES GALLERY
The photographs - a caution
Most aculeates are impossible to identify from photographs alone. Thus some of the photos in this gallery are marked as probable identities. The idea behind this gallery is to give users an idea of what the genera and some individual species look like.

Click on the names below to see images
 

Photos J Vallender & K Nicholls
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We welcome photos from members and others. Please submit your photos via photos at BWARS

Bees

Wasps Ants
Colletinae - Mining Bees
  Colletes cunicularius
 
Colletes daviesanus
  Colletes floralis
  Colletes halophilus
 
Colletes hederae
  Colletes similis
 
Colletes spp.
 
Hylaeus communis
  Hylaeus hyalinatus
  Hylaeus signatus

Andreninae - Mining Bees
  Andrena angustior
  Andrena apicata
  Andrena argentata
  Andrena barbilabris
  Andrena bicolor
  Andrena bimaculata
  Andrena chrysoceles
  Andrena cineraria
  Andrena clarkella
  Andrena dorsata
  Andrena fulva
  Andrena flavipes
  Andrena florea
  Andrena fulvago
  Andrena gravida
  Andrena haemorrhoa
 
Andrena hattorfiana
  Andrena humilis
  Andrena labiata
 
Andrena marginata
  Andrena minutula - possibly
  Andrena nigroaenea
  Andrena nigrospina
  Andrena nitida
  Andrena pilipes
  Andrena praecox
  Andrena ruficrus
 
Andrena scotica
  Andrena thoracica
  Andrena trimmerana
  Andrena vaga
  Panurgus calcaratus

Halictinae - Mining Bees
  Halictus scabiosae
  Halictus tumulorum
  Lasioglossum calceatum
  Lasioglossum leucozonium
  Lasioglossum morio or   smeathmanellum
  Lasioglossum morio group
  Lasioglossum aff. pauxillum
 
Lasioglossum spp.

Mellitinae - Mining Bees
  Dasypoda hirtipes
 
Melitta tricincta

Megachillinae
 
Chelostoma campanularum
  Chelostoma florisomne
  Coelioxys conoidea
 
Coelioxys inermis
  Heriades truncorum
  Hoplitis claviventris
  Hoplosmia spinulosa
 
Hoplitis spp.
  Megachile dorsalis         (leachella)
  Megachile ligniseca
 
Megachile willughbiella
  Osmia aurulenta
  Osmia bicolor
  Osmia caerulescens/leaiana
 
Osmia leaiana
  Osmia parietina
 
Osmia rufa
  Stelis punctulatissima

Anthophorinae
  Anthidium manicatum
  Anthophora bimaculata
  Anthophora plumipes
  Anthophora retusa
  Epeolus cruciger
  Epeolus variegatus
  Eucera longicornis
 
Eucera nigrescens
 
Melecta albifrons
 
Nomada baccata
  Nomada fabriciana
  Nomada flava
 
Nomada fucata
  Nomada fulvicornis
  Nomada goodeniana
  Nomada lathburiana
  Nomada leucophthalma
  Nomada marshamella
  Nomada rufipes
  Nomada sexfasciata
  Nomada striata
  Sphecodes monilicornis
  Xylocopa violacea
 
Apinae - Honey and Bumble Bees
  Apis mellifera
  Bombus bohemicus
  Bombus hortorum
  Bombus hypnorum
  Bombus lapidarius
  Bombus lucorum
  Bombus lucorum - B cryptarum
  Bombus monticola
  Bombus muscorum
 
Bombus pascuorum
  Bombus pratorum
  Bombus rupestris
  Bombus sylvestris
 
Bombus vestalis




 

Dryinidae
  Gonatopus clavipes
Embolemidae
Bethylidae

Chrysidiae
Cleptinae
Elampinae
 
Hedychrum niemelai
 
Hedychridium ardens
  Hedychridium roseum
  Hedychrum rutilans

Chrysidinae - Cuckoo Wasps
 
Chrysis spp.
  Chrysis viridula
  Omalus auratus
  Trichrysis cyanea

Tiphiidae
 
Tiphia femorata
Mutillidae
  Mutilla europaea
 
Smicromyrme rufipes

Sapygidae
  Sapyga quinqepunctata

Scoliidae

Pompilidae - Spider Wasps
  Agenioideus cinctellus
  Anoplius nigerrimus
  Anoplius viaticus

  Episyron rufipes
  Pompilus cinereus
  Priocnemis pertubator

Vespidae Potter and Social Wasps
  Ancistrocerus parietum
  Dolichovespula media
  Dolichovespula norwegica
  Dolichovespula sylvestris
  Eumenes coarctatus
  Odynerus spinipes
  Pseudepipona herrichii
  Symmorphus bifasciatus
  Vespa crabro
  Vespula germanica
  Vespa orientalis
  Vespula vulgaris
 

Sphecidae - Digger Wasps
  Ammophila pubescens
  Ammophila sabulosa
  Argogorytes mystaceus
  Astata boops.

  Cerceris arenaria
  Cerceris rybyensis
  Crabro peltarius
 
Ectemnius continuus
  Ectemnius lapidarius
  Lestica clypeatus
  Mellinus arvensis
  Oxybelus argentatus
  Oxybelus uniglumis
  Philanthus triangulum

  Trypoxylon spp.

Formicidae
  Formica rufa
 
Formica fusca
  Formica lugubris
  Formica sanguinea