It's Green

There's a well known scene in the original Star Trek series where Scotty drinks an alien under the table. Toward the end of the scene Scotty comes out with a bottle and the alien asks, "what is it?", to which Scotty, slurring his words, answers, "it's green".

That's kinda the best I can do when trying to identify this bee. I was able to narrow it down to the family Halictidae and tribe Augochlorini, which a gentleman on BugGuide confirmed and went further to state that it is an adult female.

And that's pretty much as far I can go.

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     Kingdom: Animalia
          Phylum: Euarthropoda
               Class: Insecta
                    Order: Hymenoptera
                         Family: Halictidae
                              Subfamily: Halictinae
                                   Tribe: Augochlorini
                                        Genera: ?
                                             Species: ?

It's green.

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So, never under estimate the collective knowledge of the crowd, especially when the crowd includes the guy who "... initiated and subsequently managed the American Museum of Natural History Bee Database Project." and who the very next morning after I wrote the draft of this post went and ruined the premise.

We now have:

     Kingdom: Animalia
          Phylum: Euarthropoda
               Class: Insecta
                    Order: Hymenoptera
                         Family: Halictidae
                              Subfamily: Halictinae
                                   Tribe: Augochlorini
                                        Genera: Augochlora
                                             Species: pura

It's Pure Green Augochlora