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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) » Modest Masked Bee (Hylaeus modestus) » Hylaeus modestus modestus

Subspecies Hylaeus modestus modestus

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Bee - Hylaeus modestus - female Wasp - Hylaeus modestus Tiny black bee? on onion - Hylaeus modestus Pollen Wasp - Hylaeus modestus Hylaeus modestus? - Hylaeus modestus - female small bee - Hylaeus modestus Hylaeus modestus - male Hylaeus - Masked Bees Hylaeus modestus modestus - Modest Masked Bee sensu stricto - Hylaeus modestus - male - female
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 modestus (Modest Masked Bee)
Subspecies modestus (Hylaeus modestus modestus)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 21 December, 2009 - 6:32pm
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 4 April, 2022 - 8:35pm

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