chloralictus's Identifications

I suspect this is a brood-parasitic Dialictus, based on the large head and wide gena and the behavior (crawling around an aggregation of Dialictus nests https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232129294#activity_identification_3d8e6eba-83c0-494a-abc6-6a870bf41209 )

Aggregation of nests; two different bees poking heads out of different small holes. Third photo shows area, hard-packed dirt. This drew my attention because there were piles of fairly large dirt particles, I thought might be turret bee nests, but no evidence of any large bees. There is a lot going on, including anthills and beetles moving around. The estimate of 20 nests is very rough, hard to say what is a nest and what isn’t. I did notice possible brood parasitic dialictus crawling around, seeming to be looking for nests. These had large heads and wide gena. Photos 4 and 5 are “normal” dialictus, which I assume are similar to those constructing and provisioning the nests, which are similar to L imitatum. Large-headed bee observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232136231: