Barrel Cactus Shortface

Dufourea echinocacti · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Halictidae

Also called: Barrel Cactus Dufourea

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Barrel Cactus Shortface
Photo: Trevor Van Loon, CC BY

The Barrel Cactus Shortface lives in North America, primarily in California and northwestern Mexico. It is closely associated with barrel cacti of the genus Echinocactus, which are common throughout its habitat.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It occurs in North America, especially California and northwestern Mexico.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found on barrel cacti of the genus Echinocactus, which grow throughout its range.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America, mainly California and northwestern Mexico.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: endemic in North America; endemic in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Barrel Cactus Shortface photo 2
Photo: Trevor Van Loon, CC BY
Barrel Cactus Shortface photo 3
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Barrel Cactus Shortface photo 4
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Barrel Cactus Shortface photo 5
Photo: Brook, CC BY

Same family (Halictidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dufourea_echinocacti

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-29 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-29.

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