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Subgenus Spatulariella

Hylaeus Bee (dead) - Hylaeus hyalinatus - male Masked Bee - Hylaeus hyalinatus Hylaeus? - Hylaeus - female Ceratina...? - Hylaeus punctatus - male Hylaeus punctatus - male Hylaeus punctatus - male Hylaeus punctatus? - Hylaeus punctatus - male - female Hylaeus hyalinatus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)
Family Colletidae (Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees)
Genus Hylaeus (Masked Bees)
No Taxon Subgenus Spatulariella
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (both introduced), 19 spp. total(1)
Range
w. Palaearctic group, with 2 spp. introduced in the US and now spreading from both coasts (map)(1)
Print References
Snelling, R.R. (1983). Studies on North American Bees of the Genus Hylaeus. 6. An adventive Palearctic species in Southern California (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 82: 12-16. (Full Text)
C. S. Sheffield, S. Dumesh, AND M. Cheryomina. (2011). Hylaeus punctatus (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), A Bee Species New to Canada, with Notes on other Non-Native Species. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 142, pp 29-43 (Full Text)