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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Masked Bees (Hylaeus) » Subgenus Prosopis (Hylaeus Subgenus Prosopis) » Hylaeus affinis

Species Hylaeus affinis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Yellow-faced Bees - Hylaeus affinis - male - female

Likely Hylaeus affinis - Hylaeus affinis

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 Prosopis)

Species affinis (Hylaeus affinis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hylaeus albertensis Cockerell, 1937

Hylaeus ziziae (Robertson, 1896)

Prosapis ziziae race dunningi Cockerell, 1898

Prosopis ziziae Robertson, 1896

Orig. comb.: Prosopis affinis Smith, 1853

Explanation of Names

Hylaeus (Prosopis) affinis (Smith, 1853)

Size

Female: Length 5-6mm(1)

Male: Length 5-6mm(1)

Identification

"... note yellow on scape and breadth of yellow markings above on male." (Comment by John Ascher)

Range

Through the Eastern United States and Canada from the New England states west to Minnesota and southward to Mississippi and Georgia.

Discover Life Map.

Season

April to October.

Food

Visits flowers from several families. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Print References

Snelling R.R. (1966) Studies on North American Bees of the Genus Hylaeus. 1. Distribution of the Western Species of the Subgenus Prosopis with Descriptions of New Forms (Hymenoptera: Colletidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (98): 1-18.(Full Text)

Internet References

Discover Life

GBIF

iNaturalist

ITIS

Works Cited

1.	Bees of the eastern United States Mitchell T.B. 1962. Tech. Bull. (NC Agric. Exp. Sta.): No. 141 (538 pp.), 1960; and No. 152 (557 pp.).

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 24 September, 2006 - 9:53am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 4 April, 2022 - 8:47pm

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