Brown-mullet Bee Female, Wing Venation | Brown-mullet Bee Female, Leg Hairs | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Brown-mullet Bee (Leioproctus sp ES01) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, Antennae & Mandibles🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Tobias J. Smith for identifying and Bernhard Jacobi for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~12mm long. We used Tobias' pictorial key, which is very good, but made a mistake at one point. Tobias was kind enough to help us in the right direction. It's available here: The Australian Bee Genera Notice the abdominal colour bands under the hair, just for interest. | |||||
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