Genus Hylaeus - Yellow-masked Bees

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Hylaeus Bee (dead) - Hylaeus hyalinatus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)

Family Colletidae (Plasterer and Yellow-faced Bees)

Genus Hylaeus (Yellow-masked Bees)

Other Common Names

Masked Bees

Numbers

51 spp. in 8 subgenera in our area, 739 spp. in 52 subgenera worldwide(1)

Subgenera not yet in the guide:

Hylaeana: 3 spp. in our area, 13 spp. total (so. US to Panama)(1)

Metziella: monotypic subgenus (e. US -map)(1)

Prosopella: monotypic subgenus (sw. US -map)(1)

Range

worldwide (map)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Apoidea (Bees; Sphecoid wasps) on discoverlife.org

Contributed by tom murray on 1 August, 2005 - 6:40pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 23 November, 2011 - 2:10pm

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