Brown-mullet Bee
Female, ventral
Ellura
Red Furry Bee
S1, Female, profile
 
                      
Red Furry Bee (Leioproctus sp ES02)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Red Furry Bee (Leioproctus sp ES02)
This Photo:     🔍S1, Female, dorsal🔎

Thank you Asaph (Asaph01) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~8mm long Female.
We thought this might be Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) sulthicum (syn: Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) sulthica), but it seems not.

Copyright © 2018-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 14-Sep-2018
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.