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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)

Species Hylaeus modestus - Modest Masked Bee

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Prosapis pennsylvanica; Prosapis rugosulus; Prosapis rugosulus var fallax; Prosopis nucleolus; Prosopis sayi; Prosopis minyra; Prosopis binghami; Prosopis supracurta
Explanation of Names
Hylaeus modestus Say 1837
Size
Female: Length 5-7mm(1)
Male: Length 4.5-7mm(1)
Range
Throughout the most of the United States (in the west from WA to MT and down Rockies to NM, and also down to CA; in the east from TX north to MN, east to ME, and south to SC) and into Canada (in Alberta and from Manitoba to Nova Scotia).
See Discover Life map of records.
Season
May to September
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
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 tom murray on 23 September, 2006 - 8:38am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, John S. Ascher, Aaron Schusteff, hg, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 13 August, 2020 - 1:02pm

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