Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee: Female, profile

Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile darwiniana)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Leafcutter Bee (Bee: Megachilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile darwiniana)

This Photo:

🔍Female, profile🔎

Thank you Asaph Whelan (Asaph01) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Record in SA on Atlas:
~10mm long
Normally found from NSW up to Cairns. But there are 2 records very close to the SA border in NSW. This is also the most southerly record on Atlas.

This species is

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

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