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Slender-faced Masked Bee (Hylaeus leptocephalus)
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Copyright © 2012
Jim Moore
Yellow-masked Bee? -
Hylaeus leptocephalus
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
June 7, 2012
Size: 5mm
Perhaps
Hylaeus leptocephalus
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or a closely related species?
My thanks for additional ID help!
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Contributed by
Jim Moore
on 9 October, 2012 - 1:44am
Last updated 31 January, 2014 - 1:06pm
Nice find Jim! Did you hold on to this bee?
The guide page does not mention its presence in CA. I wonder if there is official list of bees that have been collected in CA. I know this is originally a European species that started out, presumably, on the east coast.
Fabaceae, the primary host flowers are dominated by introduced European species, so I guess it's no surprised that we get the European bees with them!
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 18 May, 2015 - 2:17pm
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I still have it somewhere
I 'm sure there must be a list somewhere. It is a long list of about 1600 species. But I could not find such a list online!
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Jim Moore
, 18 May, 2015 - 7:08pm
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I know exactly what you mean!
I am not good at finding actual information online. That's where bugguide departs from the norm. People can actually share knowledge.
Anyway, I just thought you might get a kick out of it if you turned out to have collected the first one for California. You could get it framed and mounted!
BTW - My neighbor Randall Morgan has contributed about 80,000 insects he has collected over the years in CA to UCSC. Someday I hope to go through the collection, and maybe solve some long standing mysteries.
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 18 May, 2015 - 9:05pm
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That would be kool!
I will probably send it off to the folks at BOLD. I have found only one specimen 'officially new' to california - see here:
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1
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. Maybe I will frame and mount that one!!
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Jim Moore
, 18 May, 2015 - 11:03pm
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Nice job, especially considering the size!
I may have had a couple new to California species. This one:
I never collected many insects though, but there does seem to be a real need for some to be collected. There are so many I come across, that aren't uncommon. There just doesn't seem to be references for them.
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Arthur Scott Macmillan
, 19 May, 2015 - 11:59pm
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Moved
Moved from
Yellow-masked Bees
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John S. Ascher
, 4 June, 2013 - 7:29am
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Moved
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Keng-Lou James Hung
, 9 October, 2012 - 12:55pm
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