Lasioglossum calceatum - Gemeine Furchenbiene

Description:

A Common Furrow-Bee in a Blackberry's flower.These bees are inbetween solitary & semisocial.Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfer)Subphylum: Hexapoda Blainville, 1816Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)Infraclass: Neoptera Martynov, 1923 (Neuflgler)Order: Hymenoptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (bees, ants & wasps, Hautflgler)Suborder: Apocrita GERSTAECKER, 1867 (Taillenwespen)Superfamily: Apoidea LATREILLE, 1802 (Bienen & Grabwespen)Family: Halictidae (sweat bees; Furchenbienen & Schmalbienen)Subfamily: HalictinaeTribus: HalictiniGenus: Lasioglossum CURTIS, 1833, (Base-Banded Furrow Bees, Schmalbienen)possily Subgenus: Evylaeus Lasoiglossum calceatum SCOPOLI, 1763 (Common Furrow-Bee, Gemeine Furchenbiene)my first (wrong) guess was a parasite:: www.rutkies.de/blutbienen/index.htmlecological & taxonomic info (German): www.wildbienen.de/eb-lcalc.htmwww.rutkies.de/veroeffentlichungen/BIENE_08_039_Wildbiene...plant:Family: RosaceaeRubus spec. (Blackberry, Brombeere)Germany, Hesse, vic. Fritzlar: Edersee-Kellerwald NP, 400-600m asl., 19.07.2011_______________________________________________IMG_3423