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The following Xanthesma vittata (a native bee) was rescued from a swimming pool in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Xanthesma is a genus of Australian bees in the family Colletidae. The genus was first described in 1965 by Charles Duncan Michener.4
After taking a few photos, we placed it on jasmine hedge, where the native bee finished drying itself off, then it flew away.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Informal: Apiformes
- Family: Colletidae
- Subfamily: Euryglossinae
- Genus: Xanthesma
- Subgenus:
- Xanthesma (Argohesma) Exley, 1969
- Xanthesma (Chaetohesma) Exley, 1978
- Xanthesma (Xanthesma) Michener, 1965
- Species: Xanthesma vittata
- Xanthesma (Xenohesma) Michener, 1965
Footnote & References
- Names List for Xanthesma Michener, 1965, Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory, https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Xanthesma;EURYGLOSSINAE/names
- Xanthesma Michener, 1965, GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility, https://www.gbif.org/species/1350410
- Xanthesma (Xenohesma) perpulchra and Xanthesma (Xanthesma) brachycera are conspecific based on DNA barcodes, Australian Journal of Taxonomy, Kit S. Prendergast & James B. Dorey, https://www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/qfwvnp3iri
- Xanthesma, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthesma, Retrieved 27 October 2025
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