Sphecodes gibbus

Sphecodes gibbus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Halictidae
Genus: Sphecodes
Species:
S. gibbus
Binomial name
Sphecodes gibbus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Sphex gibba Linnaeus, 1758
  • Apis glabra Füessly, 1775
  • Andrena ferruginea Olivier, 1789
  • Apis gibbosa Christ, 1791
  • Melitta picea Kirby, 1802
  • Melitta sphecoides Kirby, 1802
  • Andrena austriaca Fabricius, 1804
  • Dichroa analis Illiger, 1806
  • Sphecodes apicatus Smith, 1853
  • Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876
  • Sphecodes sutor Nurse, 1903
  • Sphecodes nippon Meyer, 1922
  • Sphecodes castilianus Blüthgen, 1924
  • Sphecodes lustrans Cockerell, 1931
  • Sphecodes pergibbus Blüthgen, 1938

Sphecodes gibbus, the dark-winged blood bee, is a species of cleptoparasitic blood bee from the Palearctic. It is the type species of the genus Sphecodes and was first described by Carl Linnaeus as Sphex gibba in 1758.

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