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Andrena
''Andrena'' is a genus of bees in the family Andrenidae. With over 1,500 species, it is one of the largest genera of animals. It is a strongly Monophyly, monophyletic group that is difficult to split into more manageable divisions; currently, ''Andrena'' is organized into 104 subgenera. It is nearly worldwide in distribution, with the notable exceptions of Oceania and South America. Bees in this genus are commonly known as mining bees due to their ground-nesting lifestyle. Morphology ''Andrena'' are generally medium-sized bees; body length ranges between 8 and 17 mm with males being smaller and more slender than females. Most are black with white to tan hair, and their wings have either two or three submarginal cells. They carry pollen mainly on femoral Scopa (biology), scopal hairs, but many ''Andrena'' have an additional propodeal Pollen basket, corbicula for carrying some pollen on their thorax.C. D. Michener (2007) ''The Bees of the World'', 2nd Edition, Johns Hopki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Carbonaria
''Andrena'' is a genus of bees in the family Andrenidae. With over 1,500 species, it is one of the largest genera of animals. It is a strongly monophyletic group that is difficult to split into more manageable divisions; currently, ''Andrena'' is organized into 104 subgenera. It is nearly worldwide in distribution, with the notable exceptions of Oceania and South America. Bees in this genus are commonly known as mining bees due to their ground-nesting lifestyle. Morphology ''Andrena'' are generally medium-sized bees; body length ranges between 8 and 17 mm with males being smaller and more slender than females. Most are black with white to tan hair, and their wings have either two or three submarginal cells. They carry pollen mainly on femoral scopal hairs, but many ''Andrena'' have an additional propodeal corbicula for carrying some pollen on their thorax. C. D. Michener (2007) ''The Bees of the World'', 2nd Edition, Johns Hopkins University Press. They can be distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Barbilabris
''Andrena barbilabris'', the bearded miner bee, is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America. Description The bearded miner bee is commonly around 11 mm in length, the males being smaller and slenderer than the females. The females have rufous hairs on the dorsal surface of the thorax which contrast with the yellower hairs on its sides and head. The males can appear silvery in colour because of the long pale hairs on their thorax. The integument is largely black. It has a narrow head which gives this species a rather hunch-backed appearance. Distribution The bearded miner bee has a Holarctic distribution, being found across North America in southern Canada and the northern United States. In Eurasia it is distributed from western Europe to Anatolia, into western and eastern Siberia to the Russian Far East in Yakutia and Primorsky Krai and in Japan. In Britain and Ireland it has a patchy, local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Bicolor
''Andrena bicolor'', or Gwynne's mining bee, is a common and widespread Western Palearctic mining bee which is found over most of Europe as well as North Africa and the Middle East and which reaches eastwards into Siberia. Description ''Andrena bicolor'' is a small to medium-sized mining bee, with the males being slightly smaller than the females. The females have a coat of reddish-brown hairs on the dorsal surface of the thorax, a wholly black-haired face and indistinct bands of yellowish hairs on the margins of the first to third tergites. The spring brood can show an extensive black hair covering on the femur and the sides of the thorax, this is not as marked in the autumn brood. It has dark tibia on the hind legs but these have obvious orange hairs which have been said to resemble a pair of orange leg warmers. The spring brood males have black hairs on the head and side of the thorax and lack the bright colours of the females, while summer brood males often show brown hairs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Agilissima
''Andrena agilissima'' is a species of mining bee. They are present in most of Europe, the Near East and North Africa and can be found from April through July. ''Andrena agilissima'' is an ''Oligolecty, oligolectic'' species, feeding only on the pollen of a few genera of Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae species, such as ''Brassica napus'', ''Brassica rapa'', ''Raphanus raphanistrum'', ''Barbarea vulgaris'' and ''Sinapis'' species). Taxonomy and phylogeny ''A. agilissima'' is a member of the order Hymenoptera, which includes wasps, bees, and ants. It is in the family Andrenidae, and the subfamily Andreninae. The genus ''Andrena'' is one of the largest genera of bees and comprises the sand or solitary mining bees. It was first listed under the Apis genera, but in 1775, Hieronymus Fabricius, Fabricus described this genus along with 14 other species. Most ''Andrena'' bees are solitary and a few are communal. Description and identification Description ''A. agilissima'' is an Oli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Androfovea
''Andrena androfovea'' is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae from Texas and Oklahoma, characterized by its metallic dark blue to blue-green and distinctive coarse punctation. First observed in the late 1980s, it was formally described as a new species in 2024.Hart, Alexande''Texas Standard''"New ‘little blue bee’ species discovered in Texas and Oklahoma" (Jan. 3, 2025)(accessed Jan. 29, 2025 Genetic analyses revealed that ''Andrena androfovea'' represents a distinct lineage within the genus ''Andrena,'' leading to the creation of a new subgenus. Unique among ''Andrena'' species, ''Andrena androfovea'' primarily feeds on flowers of the family Solanaceae. Taxonomy and phylogenetics ''Andrena androfovea'' is a member of the hyperdiverse genus ''Andrena'', which contains approximately 1700 described species. The specific epithet "''androfovea''" is a combination of the words "''Andrena''" and " fovea", in reference to the punctation present on the male bee's head, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Helvola
''Andrena helvola '', the coppice mining bee, is a Palearctic species of mining bee from the genus ''Andrena''. Description ''Andrena helvola'' is a medium-sized bee, the females are larger than the males with a forewing length of while in the smaller males the forewings are with the larger males being more robust with bigger heads than the smaller individuals. The females have a pile of reddish-brown hair on the top of the thorax with a rather thick pile of orange or yellowish hair on the first and second tergites and a short grey pile on the third and fourth tergites. Taxonomy ''Andrena helvola'' was first formally described in 1758 as ''Apis helvola'' by Carl Linnaeus. In 1775 Fabricius described the genus ''Andrena'' and in 1912 Viereck designated ''A. helvola'' as its type species. Distribution and habitat ''Andrena helvola'' is found in the Western Palearctic from Great Britain to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and south to the Pyrenees, Alps, the Balkans and An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Vaga (Burgwald)
''Andrena vaga'', the grey-backed mining bee, is a species of solitary bee which is found in most of Europe but which is very rare in Great Britain, where it may be recolonizing in the south-east after previously being extirpated. It specialises in feeding on the pollen of willows. Description ''A. vaga'' is a large mining bee, 13-15mm in length, which has the entire thorax clothed in grey hairs, sometimes showing a slight buff tinge, the scopae and hind have white hairs. It also has patches of white hairs on the abdomen sides. On closer examination the surface of the cuticle can be seen to be shiny metallic black. The face is covered with brownish hairs It resembles the ashy mining bee (''Andrena cineraria''). Males have the entire upper surface of the thorax covered in grey hair and pale hair on the hind tibia. When it can be seen, sternite 8 will show a downwards curve at its tip. The males have the sides and top of the face coloured white, with the bottom having long white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashy Mining Bee
The ashy mining bee (''Andrena cineraria''), also known as the Danubian miner or grey mining bee, is a species of sand bee found in Europe. Its distinctive black, grey and white colouring makes it one of the most easily recognized of the genus. They are generally considered safe around children and pets because they're relatively docile, and their stingers aren't long enough to penetrate human skin. They are generalists, they mostly pollinate fruit trees, daisies, buttercups, mustard plants and brambles. Description and identification The females are black, with two broad grey hair bands across the thorax. The male is also black although the thorax is entirely covered with grey hairs. The male has a tuft of white hairs on the lower face and white hairs on all femora while the female has white hairs only on the front femora. The females have twelve segments to their antennae and the males have thirteen. Distribution and habitat The ashy mining bee is common and widespread thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Auricoma
The golden-haired miner bee (''Andrena auricoma'') is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It i .... The female bees are 8 to 10 mm in length, and males are 6 to 9 mm long. It is found in the western United States, and is relatively rare outside California. It looks very similar to the death camas miner bee (''Andrena astragali'') but is smaller. References Further reading * * * auricoma Insects described in 1879 Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist) {{Andreninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Antoinei
''Andrena antoinei'' is an extinct species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae described from a single fossil found in a Late Oligocene lake in present-day France that existed in semi-arid conditions. History and classification ''A. antoinei'' was described from a solitary fossil, which is a compression-impression fossil pair preserved in layers of soft sedimentary rock. Along with other well preserved insect fossils, the ''A. antoinei'' specimen was collected from layers of Late Oligocene lacustrine rock belonging to the "calcaire de Campagne Calavon" sediments. The material is exposed along the northern slopes of the Luberon mountains near Céreste in southern France. The sediments are reported as from a shallow paleolake that was formerly considered about 30 million year old and Rupelian in age. Recent restudy of formation has suggested the older Late Oligocene age. The paleoflora preserved in the shales suggest the lake was surrounded by a mixed-mesophytic forest, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrena Accepta
The two-spotted miner bee (''Andrena accepta'') is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America. Members of the species have communal nests made of many cells. They live in desert scrub habitat. Their primary host plants belong to the genus ''Helianthus ''Helianthus'' () is a genus comprising around 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. Except for three South American species, the species of ''Helianthus'' are native to ...''. References Further reading * * External links * accepta Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1916 Hymenoptera of North America {{Andreninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
