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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 Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena)

Subgenus Melandrena

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Bee ID please - Andrena - male bee - Andrena dunningi Bee - Andrena Bee pollinating apple - Andrena bee - Andrena dunningi Bee on ?plum flowers - Andrena vicina Small Bee - Andrena Miner Bee - Andrena
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 Melandrena
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scoliandrena, Nemandrena, Tylandrena, all LaBerge 1964(1); Scoliandrena could be retained as the "osmioides" species group; Nemandrena could be retained as the "torulosa" species group
Explanation of Names
Melandrena Pérez 1890
Numbers
~50 spp. in our area, 114 spp. total(2)
Range
holarctic, more diverse in Eurasia; all the NA spp. occur in the US, 10 range into Canada and 4 into Mexico(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 Ted Kropiewnicki on 14 March, 2008 - 11:45pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 12 May, 2023 - 5:38pm

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