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	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:	Face
	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. Photographed one specimen in Nov.
	Copyright © 2019-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 28-Nov-2019
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.