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title: "Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee"
description: "Megachile xylocopoides — Insectes et araignées. Megachile xylocopoides, the carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/carpenter-mimic-leafcutter-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee

> Megachile xylocopoides — Insectes et araignées. Megachile xylocopoides, the carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae.

- Scientific name: *Megachile xylocopoides*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 7812
- Wikidata: [Q2694783](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2694783)
- iNaturalist taxon: [323780](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/323780)

## Names

- en: Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee

## Countries with the most observations

US (7491)

## Summary

Megachile xylocopoides, the carpenter-mimic leafcutter bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Smith in 1853 and named for its superficial similarity to the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa
Its range is the United States from eastern Texas to southeast Pennsylvania.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachile_xylocopoides

## Photo

![Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/carpenter-mimic-leafcutter-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kristi Zoebelein · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227539324

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/carpenter-mimic-leafcutter-bee?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).