page_title: Hylaeus (bee)
section_title: Distribution and status
hierarchical_section_title: Hylaeus (bee) / Distribution and status
caption_attribution_description: male Hylaeus nigritus from a meadow near Nettersheim, Germany.
context_page_description: Hylaeus is a large and diverse cosmopolitan genus within the bee family Colletidae.
context_section_description: A significant diversity of Hylaeus is found in Hawai'i — approximately sixty species are recorded as living there.  Hylaeus are the only bees considered native to the islands and most of those are unique to the island chain; the diversity of this genus is far greater in Hawai'i than in all of mainland North America.  Many of them are species of concern, and some recorded there are possibly extinct.  For example, H. finitimus was last collected 100 years ago, and only ever seen on the island of Kauai.
  The Hawaiian bee population and diversity is somewhat fluid — within the past ten to twenty years several Hylaeus species have been found and identified on the islands as new to science.  In October 2016, seven species were officially listed as endangered by U. S. Fish & Wildlife, the first bees to ever be placed on the endangered species list.
caption: male H. nigritus
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