Yellow Masked Bee:

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Yellow Masked Bee (Hylaeus sp ES02)

This Photo:

Thank you Tim Rudman & Asaph (Asaph01) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Asaph said "Looks like maybe H. violaceus based on abdominal sheen"

This species is

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

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