Amphylaeus is a genus of plasterer bee in the Colletidae family and Hylaeinae subfamily. The genus is endemic to Australia.
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Amphylaeus is a genus of plasterer bee in the Colletidae family and Hylaeinae subfamily. The genus is endemic to Australia.
==Description== Amphylaeus bees are slender, less than 10 mm long, and black with pale, mask-like facial markings. Some have a yellow spot on the thorax. They nest in pithy stems or preexisting holes in wood. Their brood cells are woven from a cellophane-like secretion.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).