Genus Protandrena

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Hymenoptera - Protandrena cockerelli - male

bee ? Potter & Mason group ? - Protandrena

Central Texas bee (possibly Andrena) - Protandrena abdominalis

bee_maybe Ceratina with white face - Protandrena cockerelli - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)

Family Andrenidae (Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees)

Subfamily Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)

Tribe Protandrenini (Protandrenine Bees)

Genus Protandrena

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Formerly included in Psaenythia but that genus, as currently recognized, is South American.

Several other genera were included in Protandrena by Michener (2000, 2007) but this has not been generally accepted by panurgine specialists as the resulting group is heterogeneous and surely not monophyletic.

Explanation of Names

Protandrena Cockerell 1896

Numbers

23 spp. in our area, 52 spp. total(1)

Range

Canada to Panama, most common in w. US - (Map)(1)(2)

Records from South America pertain to species better placed in other less inclusive genera (see Moure's Bee Catalogue)

Food

genus includes both generalists and specialists (2)

Life Cycle

all members of this genus are solitary (2)

Print References

Cane, J.H. and S.L. Buchmann. 1989. Novel pollen-harvesting behavior by the bee Protandrena mexicanorum (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 2: 431-436.

Chandler, L. 1962. Notes on the species of Psaenythia (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in the eastern United States. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 35: 313-314.

Timberlake, P.H. 1955. Notes on the species of Psaenythia of north America. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria "Filippo Silvestri", Portici 33: 398-409.

Timberlake, P.H. 1969. Metapsaenythia, a new panurgine bee genus (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). Entomological News 80: 89-92.

Timberlake, P.H. 1976. Revision of the North American bees of the genus Protandrena (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 102: 133-228.

Works Cited

1.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

2.	The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees. Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia J. Messinger Carril. 2015. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 23 June, 2008 - 8:12pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, John S. Ascher, v belov
Last updated 3 May, 2017 - 12:17am

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