Subfamily Andreninae - Mining Bees

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Andrena miserabilis? - Andrena miserabilis - male

Bee possibly Halictidae on Whiskbroom Parsley - Andrena

looks like worn A.hirticincta - Andrena hirticincta - female

dark bee with broken abdominal bands feeding on birdsfoot trefoil - Andrena wilkella

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)

Other Common Names

Miner Bees

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

see (1) for massive recent updates that may considerably affect guide page info at supraspecific levels... =v=

Numbers

>480 spp. in 2 genera in our area; worldwide, over 1,500 spp. in 6 genera of 2 tribes (one tribe contains just 3 spp. from Chile); however, only a dozen spp. belongs to genera other than Andrena(2)

Identification

Apex of marginal cell pointed or narrowly rounded and on the costal margin of the wing. They usually have three submarginal cells.

Range

mostly holarctic, with few spp. in Subsaharan Africa, S. America (a small endemic tribe in Chile), and SE Asia; 2/3 of the spp. in the Old World, but all in the genus Andrena(2)

Works Cited

1.	Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography and revised classification of andrenine bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) Pisanty G., Richter R., Martin T., Dettman J., Cardinal S. 2022. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 170: 107‒151.

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

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 17 April, 2007 - 2:26pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 1 July, 2023 - 8:07am

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