LeioproctusLeioproctus Andrenopsis Leioproctus bipectinatus Leioproctus excubitor Leioproctus muelleri Leioproctus xanthosus
Leioproctus excubitor on yellow verticordia (they love the pink version too). It grows wild in thick patches around here (Geraldton, Midwest WA) and the local natives love it, especially the Leioproctus bees. These gorgeous girls are pretty chilled out when it comes to getting pics of them, not flighty at all like some bees are, and they don’t dart about flat out when they forage, they just cruise along, taking their time… 🙂
Author Gary Taylor
Leioproctus Alokocolletes excubitor on Amaranthaceae Ptilotus. Location just on the north side of the Overlander Roadhouse, Hamelin Pool WA.
Photographer © Marc Newman
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Apoidea
- Informal: Apiformes
- Family: Colletidae
- Subfamily: Neopasiphaeinae
- Genus: Leioproctus
- Subgenus: infrageneric Alokocolletes
- Species: Leioproctus excubitor
Footnote & References
- Photographs Leioproctus excubitor, Midwest WA © Gary Taylor
- Photographs Leioproctus excubitor, Hamelin Pool WA © Marc Newman, Flickr, https://flickr.com/photos/koolbee/albums
- Leioproctus (Andrenopsis) Cockerell, 1905, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Leioproctus (Andrenopsis)
- Two new and unusual species of the bee genus Leioproctus Smith (Hymenoptera: Colletidae), with notes on their behaviour, by Terry F. Houston, Western Australian Museum, https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/records-supplements/records/two-new-and-unusual-species-bee-genus-leioproctus-smith-hymenop
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