Hylaeus sanguinipictus
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Hylaeus sanguinipictus is a bee species endemic to Western Australia. It was described in 1914 from material collected in Yallingup by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell as Prosopis sanguinipicta.[1]
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Hylaeus sanguinipictus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Colletidae |
Genus: | Hylaeus |
Species: | H. sanguinipictus |
Binomial name | |
Hylaeus sanguinipictus (Cockerell, 1914) | |
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Like its relative the banksia bee (Hylaeus alcyoneus), H. sanguinipictus's expression of sexual dimorphism is unusual — the males of the species are larger than the females; in most other types of bee, females are larger than males. The males perch and defend Banksia inflorescences while waiting to mate with females, and combat other males.[2]
Western Australian banksias that the bee has been recorded visiting include B. menziesii and B. prionotes.[2]