EuryglossinaEuryglossina fuscescens Euryglossina sulcata

Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, belonging to the family Colletidae (known as Colletid Bees and Plasterer Bees), are one of a number of Euryglossina species that are native to Australia and New Zealand.

I love that this is a bee, and was so stoked as soon as I saw it in the Myrtaceae. Certainly one of the most un-bee looking bees I’ve ever found. Doesn’t appear to be any other photographs of it in the wild that I can find anywhere. Euryglossina sulcata. ~3.5 mm. Thanks to Ken Walker and Michael Batley for help with ID.

Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata, ACT © Danny Thomas
  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Subphylum: Hexapoda
  • Class: Insecta
  • Informal: Pterygotes
  • Order: Hymenoptera
  • Superfamily: Apoidea
  • Informal: Apiformes
  • Family: Colletidae
  • Subfamily: Euryglossinae
  • Genus: Euryglossina
  • Subgenus: infrageneric Euryglossina
  • Species: Euryglossina sulcata

Footnote & References

  1. Photographs Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata © Danny Thomas
  2. Bee Aware of Your Native Bees (Australia), https://www.facebook.com/groups/beeawareofyournativebees/
  3. Revision of the genus Eutyglossina Cockerell (Apoidea : Colletidae), Em Exley, Australian Journal of Zoology 16(6) 915 – 1020, Published: 1968, CSIRO Publishing, https://www.publish.csiro.au/zo/zo9680915
  4. Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata Exley, 1968, Plasterer Bee, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Euryglossina (Euryglossina) sulcata
  5. File:Euryglossina sulcata.jpg, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euryglossina_sulcata.jpg

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