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Lasioglossum gotham is a species of sweat bee in the subgenus Dialictus, within the family Halictidae. It was described as a new species in Jason Gibbs's 2011 revision of the metallic Lasioglossum of eastern North America, a monograph that treated 97 species and included identification keys for male...
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Gained notice from New York discovery and distinctive name; scientific novelty improves reputation, but species remains niche.
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Lasioglossum figueresi is a tropical sweat bee in the family Halictidae, described by W. T. Wcislo in 1990 from Costa Rica. It is largely solitary: about 80 to 90 percent of females are solitary during nest provisioning, although some nests contain two and rarely three females. The species builds ne...
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Highly obscure sweat bee with limited public documentation; consensus mostly specialist and biodiversity-based.
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