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Hornfaced bee

Osmia cornifrons (Radoszkowski, 1887)

Status not recordedbees wasps and ants

The hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) is a species in the family Megachilidae, order Hymenoptera.

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Quick facts about the hornfaced bee

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the hornfaced bee live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hornfaced bee as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Denmark
  2. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the hornfaced bee endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the hornfaced bee classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyMegachilidae
  6. genusOsmia
  7. SpeciesOsmia cornifrons (Radoszkowski, 1887)

Synonyms Chalicodoma cornifrons, Megachile cornifrons, Osmia cornifrons

Other names and names in other languages (5)
  • Horn-faced beeEnglish
  • Horn-faced mason beeEnglish
  • Japanische MauerbieneGerman
  • ヒトツバツツハナバチJapanese
  • 머리뿔가위벌Korean

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the hornfaced bee

Other species in the same genus Osmia.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the hornfaced bee an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the hornfaced bee as introduced in 2 countries: Denmark and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the hornfaced bee?

The hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) belongs to the family Megachilidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/hornfaced-bee

MLA

“Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/hornfaced-bee.

BibTeX
@misc{hornfaced_bee_2026,
  title = {Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/hornfaced-bee},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}