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Dentigera
Hylaeus is a large (over 500 species) and diverse cosmopolitan genus within the bee family Colletidae. This genus is also known as the yellow-faced bees or masked bees. This genus is the only truly globally distributed colletid, occurring on all continents except Antarctica.
14 branches of this group, most-observed first
Short-horned Yellow-face Bee
speciesHylaeus brevicornis
Gredler's Masked Bee
speciesHylaeus gredleri
Hylaeus imparilis
speciesHylaeus imparilis
Hylaeus rubicola
speciesHylaeus rubicola
Hylaeus intermedius
speciesHylaeus intermedius
Hylaeus kahri
speciesHylaeus kahri
Hylaeus brachycephalus
speciesHylaeus brachycephalus
Hylaeus pilosulus
speciesHylaeus pilosulus
Hylaeus kashmirensis
speciesHylaeus kashmirensis
Hylaeus vetustus
speciesHylaeus vetustus
Hylaeus pallidicornis
speciesHylaeus pallidicornis
Hylaeus conformis
speciesHylaeus conformis
Hylaeus glacialis
speciesHylaeus glacialis
Hylaeus penalaris
speciesHylaeus penalaris
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 602815.