Reprinted from: Snelling, R. 1970. STUDIES ON NORTH AMERICAN BEES OF THE GENUS
HYLAEUS. 5. THE SUBGENERA HYLAEUS. S. STR. AND
PARAPROSOPIS (HYMENOPTERA: COLLETIDAE) Contributions in Science, No. 180.
This name is based on a single male from an unknown locality in Nevada.
Although the type should be in the collections of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, it is apparently lost or destroyed. If the type cannot
be found, it seems best to drop the name altogether since the spec;es cannot be
determined from the original description alone. The present assignment to
the subgenus Paraprosopis is also tentative.
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