Proximate Masked Bee: S2, Face

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Proximate Masked Bee (Hylaeus proximus)

This Photo:

S2, Face

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~5.5mm long.
We thought these were Red-sided Masked Bee (Hylaeus lateralis).

This species is

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

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