Euhesma crabronica
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Colletidae |
| Genus: | Euhesma |
| Species: | E. crabronica |
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| Euhesma crabronica | |
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Euhesma crabronica, or Euhesma (Euhesma) crabronica, is a species of bee in the family Colletidae and the subfamily Euryglossinae. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1914 by British-American entomologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.[1][2]
Description
Female body length is 11 mm, wingspan 14.5 mm. Colouring is mainly black and yellow, with some reddish-brown.[1]
Cockerell comments:
I have now to record a bee, just received from the Queensland Museum, which looks at first sight like some Crabronid wasp; so much so that I could hardly believe, until I had examined it with a lens, that it was really a bee […] A very remarkable species, quite unlike any previously known.[1]
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in eastern Australia. The type locality is Brisbane.[2]
Behaviour
The adults are flying mellivores. Flowering plants visited by the bees include Leptospermum flavescens and Tristania species.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Cockerell, TDA (1914). "A bee resembling a wasp". The Entomologist. 47: 142–143 [142]. Retrieved 2026-04-26.
- 1 2 3 4 "Species Euhesma (Euhesma) crabronica (Cockerell, 1914)". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2026. Retrieved 2026-04-26.