Red-browed Leaf-cutter Bee: Dorsal

Red-browed Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile erythropyga)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Leafcutter Bee (Bee: Megachilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Red-browed Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile erythropyga)

This Photo:

Dorsal

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

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The photo's are in reverse order showing a bee leaving after checking out a disused hollow from a Mud nesting wasp.
We thought this was Megachile chrysopyga.

This species is

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

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