''Megachile rawi'' is a species of
bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyly, monophyletic lineage within the ...
in the family
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Both that their pollen-carrying structure (called a ''scopa'') is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other b ...
.
It was described by Engel in 1999.
References
Rawi Rawi or al-Rawi may refer to:
*a ''rāwī'', a reciter and transmitter of Arabic poetry
*a person from Rawa, Iraq
Rawa ( ar, راوة) or Rawah is an Iraqi city on the Euphrates river. It lies on the north bank of the river, upstream by approx. ...
Insects described in 1999
Taxa named by Michael S. Engel
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