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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 Cnemidandrena (Andrena Subgenus Cnemidandrena) » Hairy-banded Mining Bee (Andrena hirticincta)

Species Andrena hirticincta - Hairy-banded Mining Bee

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References
Bee ZH3Z3439 - Andrena hirticincta - female Golden hairy bee - Andrena hirticincta - female Solitary bee - Andrena hirticincta - female Mining Bee - Andrena hirticincta - female Hairy bee - Andrena hirticincta - male Mining Bee? - Andrena hirticincta - male Digger bee - Andrena hirticincta - male Andrena hirticincta - male
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 Cnemidandrena)
Species hirticincta (Hairy-banded Mining Bee)
Size
Female: 11-13 mm. Male 8.5-10 mm.
Identification
Most of its pubescence has a green-yellow tinge
Range
Minnesota to the New England states and Nova Scotia, south to North Carolina and Georgia.
Discover Life Map
Season
August to October.
Food
A Solidago specialist. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
Print References
Donovan, B. J. 1977. A revision of North American bees of the subgenus Cnemidandrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). University of California Publications in Entomology: 1-107.
Internet References
Discover life
Contributed by tom murray on 23 September, 2006 - 8:42am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 1 July, 2023 - 8:07am

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