Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subgenus Paraprosopis

Little Black Wasp - Hylaeus Little Black Wasp - Hylaeus Hylaeus ? - Hylaeus polifolii Small wasp - Hylaeus calvus - female hylaeus bee regurgitating nectar? - Hylaeus Hylaeus polifolii or modestus? - Hylaeus Hylaeus polifolii or modestus? - Hylaeus sm carpenter bee 2 - Hylaeus
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 Paraprosopis
Numbers
16 spp. in our area, 53 spp. total(1)
Range
holarctic, more diverse in Eurasia; in our area, all 16 spp. occur in the US, 3 range into sw. Canada(1)