Halictus

Halictini

Genus Halictus Latreille, four taxa

Key to Females (From Mitchell 1962)

1. Cheeks angulate or toothed below...H. poeyi

Cheeks rounded below....2

2. Dull metallic; size small (8mm)...H. confusus

Black, usually larger (9mm or more)...3

3. Vertex broad, the lateral ocelli being subequally distant from eyes and margin of vertex..H. parallelus

Vertex not so broad, the lateral ocelli being considerably nearer its hind margin than to eyes..H. rubicundus

Key to Males (from Mitchell 1962)

1. Flagella entirely black or piceous; apical margin of sternum 5 broadly, triangularly incurved..H. rubicundus

Flagella bright ferruginous or yellowish beneath; margin of sternum 5 straight, or it at all incurved, then body dull green in color...2

2. Dull metallic; face quite narrow and elongate; apical third of clypeus yellow...H. confusus

Black; face rounded; apical two thirds of clypeus yellow...3

3. Smaller (9mm); wings subhyaline; dorsum of thorax shining between the rather close and fine punctures...H. poeyi

Larger (11mm); wings brown; dorsum of thorax dull between the punctures....H. parallelus

Subgenus Odontolictus, 1 taxa

Halictidae: Halictus poeyi Lepeletier 1841

County Records: nearly throughout

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Dates: all year in Florida

Plants: composites (Graenicher); Bidens, Ludwigia, Mimosa, Sagittaria, Salix, and Pterocaulon (UM); Lactuca sp., Rudbeckia fulgida Sida sp. (1 ♂), Piriqueta caroliniana, Helianthus radula, Rubus argutus, Erigeron, Melanthera, Aster, Coreopsis (Pascarella unpub. data)