Dasypoda hirtipes get one of their common names, the pantaloon bee, from the hirsute hind legs of the females which apparently swell up with pollen, deposited in the golden hairs of the hind tibiae[3] as the bee forages making them look as if they are wearing pantaloons.

[4] The "pantaloons" make the females highly distinctive and easy to identify, otherwise they are a medium to large bee with yellowish-brown colouration on the thorax and the abdomen is banded with black and golden-brown.

Males are less obvious but the abdomen is similar to the female's but their body is coated in long brown hairs.

The female digs it at an oblique angle which results in the spoil being deposited in a fan at one side of the entrance.

[4] A new species Dasypodus morawitzi was described in 2016 from museum specimens collected in eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Turkey and which had been labelled as D. hirtipes.