Elegant Masked Bee
S3, Female, dorsal
Elegant Masked Bee
S2, Female, profile
| Elegant Masked Bee S3, Female, dorsal | | Elegant Masked Bee S2, Female, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Colletid Bee (Bee: Colletidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Elegant Masked Bee (Hylaeus elegans) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, Female, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you (BaronSamedi ) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~9mm long. We thought these were H. dromedarius by colour matching. But it turns out colour matching isn't very reliable with these. On iNaturalist, Bernhard Jacobi said "The male elegans can be easily differentiated from dromedarius by the name-sake humped metasoma of the latter." Padil has a good image of a male making it clear how different it is to ours: Hylaeus dromedarius | |||||
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