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Family Colletidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Masked Bees that we found in
the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. They are also known as Leaf-faced Bees
and Black Hairless Bees.
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 - Subfamily Hylaeine, body length 15mm
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- The bee is black in colour, with yellow pattern on its thorax which is a
common pattern on bees in Subfamily Hylaeine. This bee nests in stem, includes
the flower stalks of the grass tree (Xanthorrhoea).
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- The bees are hairless. They carry pollen in their stomachs.
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- We saw this bee once in Yimbun Park Brisbane on OCT 2007. It seems was
sucking some kind of honey dew on a leaf.
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- Reference:
- 1. Colletidae - Insects of Townsville, by Graeme Cocks,
2004.
- 2. Native
Bees of the Sydney region, a field guide - Anne Dollin, Michael Batley,
Martyn Robinson & Brian Faulkner, Australian Native Bee Research Centre. P33.
- 3. Masked Bee Specimen - Australian
Museum, 2009.
- 4. Northern
Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 5. Palaeorhiza (Cnemidorhiza) parallela (Cockerell, 1905) - PaDIL,
2011.
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