Hylaeus (Prosopis) azorae (Warncke)

Weissmann, Julie A., Picanco, Ana, Borges, Paulo A. V. & Schaefer, Hanno, 2017, Bees of the Azores: an annotated checklist (Apidae, Hymenoptera), ZooKeys 642, pp. 63-95 : 72

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.642.10773

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E8512D08-5E22-4794-AE23-31FA1F1BD606

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B1B2C198-9700-270C-A481-B15C10B65113

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scientific name

Hylaeus (Prosopis) azorae (Warncke)
status

 

Hylaeus (Prosopis) azorae (Warncke) View in CoL

Description.

Male 6-7 mm, female unknown; sternite 7 with winged appendages, sternite 8 deeply V-shaped (Fig. 6a).

Distinguishing features.

Male with +/- rectangular yellowish face pattern (Fig. 5a); female unknown.

General distribution.

Endemic to the Azores.

Distribution in the Azores.

Pico, Montanha do Pico.

First record.

1938 (described in Warncke 1992b, known only from the type).

Nesting.

Unknown, probably in hollow twigs.

Social behaviour.

Unknown, but probably solitary.

Foraging.

Unknown.

Phenology.

July.

Material.

Pico, 10.07.1938, 1 male, leg. Ragnar Storå, coll. Linz.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Colletidae

Genus

Hylaeus