Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee
Female, Face & Ocelli
Ellura
Red-browed Leaf-cutter Bee
Dorsal
 
                      
Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile darwiniana)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)
Family: Leafcutter Bee (Bee: Megachilidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Darwin's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile darwiniana)
This Photo:     🔍Female, ventral🔎

Thank you Asaph (asaph01) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Record in SA on Atlas:
~10mm long
Normally found from NSW up to Cairns. But there are 2 records very close to the SA border in NSW. This is also the most southerly record on Atlas.

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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.