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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Simandrena (Andrena Subgenus Simandrena) » Andrena nasonii

Species Andrena nasonii

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References
On magnolia blossom - Andrena nasonii - female Cuckoo Bee? - Andrena nasonii - female Yellow-faced bee - Andrena nasonii - female Yellow-faced bee - Andrena nasonii Andrena feeding on claytonia - Andrena nasonii - female Maybe Nason's Andrena? - Andrena nasonii - female Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees - Andrena nasonii Nason's Mining Bee in New Brunswick, Canada - Andrena nasonii
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 Andreninae (Mining Bees)
Genus Andrena
No Taxon (Subgenus Simandrena)
Species nasonii (Andrena nasonii)
Explanation of Names
Author: Robertson, 1895
Size
Female 7-9 mm. Male 6-8 mm.
Identification
broadened tibia; strong hair bands on T2-4 but not T1

short F1 (ref.)
Range
Minnesota to Eastern Canada and the New England states, south to North Carolina, Georgia and Texas, some records from western states also
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Food
Polylectic (gathers pollen from many different plants). The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Internet References
Discover Life
Encyclopedia of Life
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 3 May, 2010 - 10:31am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 16 March, 2022 - 11:40pm

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