Brown-mullet Bee: Female, Basitibial Plate

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, Basitibial Plate🔎

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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