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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) » Andrena obscuripennis

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Copyright © 2005 Erik Blosser

Bee - Andrena obscuripennis -

Newport News, Virginia, USA
May 22, 2005

There is a hive of these bees in the woods behind my backyard. They live in the ground and have a lot of entrance holes. I can try to get a better picture if needed for ID.

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Contributed by Erik Blosser on 23 May, 2005 - 4:48pm
Last updated 26 September, 2006 - 6:33pm

Moved

Moved from Mining Bees.

… john and jane balaban, 26 September, 2006 - 6:33pm

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Andrena (Melandrena) obscuripennis Smith

An interesting new state record for Virginia! There are no verified records of this species from anywhere except MD (unpublished), NC, GA, and FL, so please try to document this species further next year if possible. If you have more photos please post them. It would be great if you could obtain a good series of specimens if you have a large population. The AMNH has only one female. The nesting biology is entirely unknown so a biological study would be worthwhile.

To my knowledge no other eastern Andrena has such black wings and entirely orange legs. This is the female.

You could find MANY additional new state records for VA in Newport News

… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2006 - 6:16pm

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Thanks for the info

Exciting news and I do have one more picture. I believe both of these pictures were actually taken by a friend, Jason Widlacki, who was also present when we found the bees. We swapped pictures so I'm not sure. He might have more pictures of these. I will definately check the place out when I'm back in Virginia.

… Erik Blosser, 26 September, 2006 - 7:53pm

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Andrenidae.

Quite certain this is a species of Andrena. Really messy family, though.

… Eric R. Eaton, 24 May, 2005 - 6:44pm

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