# Valley Carpenter Bee

*Xylocopa sonorina*

- **Taxonomy:** Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Hymenoptera › Apidae › Xylocopa
- **IUCN Red List status:** Least Concern
- **Biome:** forest

## About

Xylocopa sonorina , the valley carpenter bee or Hawaiian carpenter bee , is a species of carpenter bee found from western Texas to northern California, and the eastern Pacific islands. Females are black while males are golden-brown with green eyes.

## Sources

- Plate: https://gaia-dex.com/species/66cfba0b-8cea-4bc0-a550-c5f4f57e6053
- iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/244216
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa sonorina
- Conservation status: IUCN Red List category, as recorded by Gaia-Dex
- Photo: https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/290161/medium.jpg (Sam Droege, CC-BY, via iNaturalist)

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