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 ...
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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.
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auricoma
Insects described in 1879
Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist)
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