Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
The females of this subfamily, like those of the Australian subfamily Euryglossinae and most of those in the chiefly Neotropical subfamily Xeromelissinae, lack scopal hairs and transport pollen in the crop. The subfamily Hylaeinae is represented in North America only by the genus Hylaeus. The species of this genus make cells of a transparent cellophane-like material in preexisting burrows, hollow stems, holes or cavities.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
