Side View -- the Original Mystery Bee (IMAGE)

Canadian Museum of Nature

Side View -- the Original Mystery Bee

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Side (lateral) view of the "mystery" bee: This is the holotype specimen of the mystery bee, collected in the 1870s, which was named Brachymelecta mucida. It is now understood to be an aberrant specimen of Brachymelecta californica, the California digger-cuckoo bee.

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Thomas Onuferko, Canadian Museum of Nature

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