Anthidium cingulatum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Megachilidae |
Genus: | Anthidium |
Species: | A. cingulatum
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Binomial name | |
Anthidium cingulatum Latreille, 1809
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Anthidium cingulatum is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees which is found in south and central Europe east to Siberia and south to North Africa and Iran.[2] It feeds on the nectar and pollen of plants in the families Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Lamiaceae[2] while males have been recorded as pollinators of the lizard orchid Himantoglossum caprinum in Crimea.[3]