Megachile ligniseca (Kirby, 1802)
(Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee)
Genus	Megachile (leaf-cutter and mud bees)
Family	MEGACHILIDAE (a family of solitary bees)
Superfamily	APOIDEA (solitary and hive bees)
Infraorder	Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Megachile ligniseca is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Records of Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee) :
1: Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee)
24 May 2011	OSGR: SU56	51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W	Vice County: Berks (VC 22)	England
Male, visiting Chives in garden

Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Megachile
(leaf-cutter and mud bees)

APOIDEA
(solitary and hive bees)

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Megachile ligniseca (Wood-carving Leaf-cutter Bee)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

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