Euhesma crabronica, or Euhesma (Euhesma) crabronica, is a species of bee in the family Colletidae and the subfamily Euryglossinae. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1914 by British-American entomologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.
Description Female body length is 11 mm, wingspan 14.5 mm. Colouring is mainly black and yellow, with some reddish-brown.
Cockerell comments:I have now to record a bee, just received from the Queensland Museum, which looks at first sight like some Crabronid wasp; so much so that I could hardly believe, until I had examined it with a lens, that it was really a bee […] A very remarkable species, quite unlike any previously known.
Distribution and habitat The species occurs in eastern Australia. The type locality is Brisbane.
Behaviour The adults are flying mellivores. Flowering plants visited by the bees include Leptospermum flavescens and Tristania species.
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