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Subgenus Plastandrena

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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 Plastandrena
Explanation of Names
Plastandrena Hedicke 1933
Numbers
6 spp. in our area, 36 total(1)
Range
holarctic, more diverse in Eurasia; in our area, 1 sp. transcontinental in the US & Canada, 1 sp. widespread in the w. half of the US & adjacent Canada, and the rest occur in sw. US(1)
Works Cited
1.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 - 11:49pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 12 May, 2023 - 5:57pm

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