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Subfamily Andreninae - Mining Bees

female  and male andrena? - Andrena barbilabris - male - female Black bee - Andrena Bee on wild parsley - Andrena Andrena crinita - female Bee ? - Andrena Unknown Bee - Andrena Bee - Andrena Bee May 9 - Andrena - 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 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)