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title: "Orange-legged Furrow Bee"
description: "Halictus rubicundus — Insetos e aranhas. Halictus rubicundus, the orange-legged furrow bee, is a species of sweat bee found throughout the Northern Hemisphere."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/orange-legged-furrow-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Orange-legged Furrow Bee

> Halictus rubicundus — Insetos e aranhas. Halictus rubicundus, the orange-legged furrow bee, is a species of sweat bee found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

- Scientific name: *Halictus rubicundus*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montanhas)
- iNaturalist observations: 16596
- Wikidata: [Q611128](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611128)
- iNaturalist taxon: [127747](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/127747)

## Names

- en: Orange-legged Furrow Bee
- de: Rotbeinige Furchenbiene
- fr: Halicte pattes-rouges
- nl: Roodpotige groefbij

## Countries with the most observations

US (6332), CA (4058), DE (316), GB (273), PL (102), FR (74), RU (68), DK (66), FI (65), IE (58), AT (52), IT (26)

## Summary

Halictus rubicundus, the orange-legged furrow bee, is a species of sweat bee found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.  H. rubicundus entered North America from the Old World during one of two main invasions of Halictus subgenera. These invasions likely occurred via the Bering land bridge at times of low sea level during the Pleistocene epoch.
The species exhibits different social behaviors depending on climate: it is a solitary species in high elevations or latitudes where the season is short, but eusocial in other areas. Often, solitary and eusocial colonies appear simultaneously in the same population. These sweat…

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

## Photo

![Orange-legged Furrow Bee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/orange-legged-furrow-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Paul Manning · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23722819

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/orange-legged-furrow-bee?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).