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Parallel Beautiful-Masked bee
Palaeorhiza parallela
Palaeorhiza parallela, or Palaeorhiza (Cnemidorhiza) parallela, also known as the parallel beautiful-masked bee, is a species of bee in the family Colletidae and subfamily Hylaeinae. It is native to Australia. It was described by British entomologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1905.
From the article Palaeorhiza parallela on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
What it does
The adults are flying mellivores. Flowering plants visited by the bees include Cassia, Eucalyptus, Eugenia, Rosa and Xanthorrhoea species.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
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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 894763.