Posted by IvanAndersen on 12-04-2012 09:43
#1
Found 21st Feb 2012, Johannesburg area South Africa. Probably about 6-7mm long.
ID credit to Connal Eardley
Agricultural Research Council (ARC)
South Africa
http://www.waspweb.org/Apoidea/Halictidae/Halictinae/Halictus/index.htm
Edited by IvanAndersen on 23-04-2012 08:17
Posted by Marc T on 12-04-2012 21:04
#2
Dear IvanAndersen,
if you would have taken the pic in central Europe, I'd say it's an Halictus or Lasioglossum sp. We have some rather small green metallic species of these closely related genera. But as far as I don't know the South African bee fauna, it might well be a bee from another genera!?
Best regards,
Marc