Littler's Masked Bee: S1, Male, profile

Littler's Masked Bee (Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) cf littleri)

Class:

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

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Littler's Masked Bee (Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) cf littleri)

This Photo:

S1, Male, profile

Thank you Asaph (Asaph01) for identifying and Dr John Ascher & Brian Dagley for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~4mm long, Male, with thick antennae.
There are a couple of small differences between this and other H. littleri photo's on-line. 1st this has the "mask" extending up between the antennae, where others don't.
2ndly this has short 1st antennal segments, where others are long.3 one male in Nov.

This species is

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

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