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Nomada hirtipes
Family: ApidaeGenus: Nomadaheimisch in Deutschland
heimisch in Deutschland
native_regions-Cache · 85 %
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2
Plants
visited
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2
Interactions
documented
About this species
A cleptoparasitic cuckoo bee belonging to the family Apidae, recorded in Great Britain.
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Visited plants
Annual cycle
Univoltine; one generation is produced per year.
Merkmale
Ernährung & Verhalten
Food
cleptoparasite
Generationen/Jahr
univoltin
Scientific profile
Nomada hirtipes is a cleptoparasitic bee that develops in the nests of other solitary bee species. It is univoltine, producing a single generation each year. Females have an intertegular distance of 1.59 mm and a tongue length of 3.32 mm. The species belongs to the genus Nomada, commonly known as cuckoo bees, which do not collect pollen for their own offspring but instead lay their eggs in the provisioning cells of host bees.
Sources & Data Origin
•SAFEGUARD Pollinator Traits — CC BY 4.0SAFEGUARD Pollinator Traits contributors (wild-bee release 2024-09-22; hoverfly release 2024-03-26).
•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
•EBHD — European Biodiversity Hub Database v2025, Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17107215 (CC BY 4.0)
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