Kamay Botany Bay National Park
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Discussion
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
29 Aug 2023
Interesting find and agree with your suggestion it is an escapee.
Polytelis swainsonii
michael.batley
wrote:
11 Oct 2022
Not really. There are many small Hylaeus species with pale marks on the face and part of the legs and on that basis could be said to be like your photo. It is also important to know whether one is looking at a male or a female.
H. minusculus is a rather slender species and I would have expected to be able to notice that even at the angle shown. If it were a male H. minusculus, there would be no black between the face marks at the side and in the middle of the face and the scapes at the base of the antennae would be yellow, not black. My count of antennal segments, however, suggests that it is a female and a female H. minusculus would have no yellow at all in the middle of the face.
I am afraid that the identification of masked bee species can often depend on small differences like this.
H. minusculus is a rather slender species and I would have expected to be able to notice that even at the angle shown. If it were a male H. minusculus, there would be no black between the face marks at the side and in the middle of the face and the scapes at the base of the antennae would be yellow, not black. My count of antennal segments, however, suggests that it is a female and a female H. minusculus would have no yellow at all in the middle of the face.
I am afraid that the identification of masked bee species can often depend on small differences like this.
Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) sp. (genus & subgenus)
Roger
wrote:
11 Oct 2022
Very much like Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) minusculus
Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) sp. (genus & subgenus)
michael.batley
wrote:
11 Oct 2022
I believe she belongs to a known, but not formally named species.
Hylaeus (Prosopisteron) sp. (genus & subgenus)
Roger
wrote:
11 Oct 2022
Thank you Michael, I only have 4 images of this bee and they are basically the same, all showing the brown orange colour, it was about the same size as Leioproctus sp.
Apiformes (informal group)
Land area
503.91
ha
ha
Survey effort
0.02
sightings per ha
sightings per ha
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