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Hylaeus longiceps

Hawaiian Yellow-faced Bee

Endemic to Hawaiʻipossibly extinct

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74

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1892

First collected

1931

Last collected

2013

Last seen alive

Two centuries of collecting

1890s1930s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1892 by R. C. L. Perkins. The Museum last collected it in 1931; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as March 30, 2013.

Alive today

1 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.