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#2474 - Dufourea ligulata - Strap Flame Lichen
Originally described as Physcia ligulata in 1862, transferred to Xanthoria in 1983, Jackelixia in 2009 and finally Dufourea in 2013 after researchers got a look at its genetics.
On top of a stone fence at the B&B in Hāwera - absolutely typical habitat for the species, which grows on coastal rocks.
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the most cartoon dad ass lookin' bee i've ever seen, a male Dufourea campanulae (Halictidae)
identifying bees, particularly ones collected in the western US where they're hyperdiverse and criminally understudied, really makes me feel like an old timey gumshoe detective. There's around 70 described species of Dufourea in the US, mostly in the west, and of course no comprehensive treatments or keys have been published, just dozens of 70-130 year old scientific monographs, mostly written by Theodore "Mr Too Many Damn Bees" Cockerell, that need to be individually looked up and compared almost line-by-line until you find one that fully matches the specimen.
here's the original description by Cockerell written in 1897 if you're curious:
The Black #Dufourea. D. maura. A western Rockies species that sneaks up north and east above the Great Lakes. This one landed on Isle Royale, Michigan. Look at this bee, it is so mysterious looking.
