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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) » Ancylandrena

Genus Ancylandrena

Classification · Pronunciation · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Bees in communal nest - Ancylandrena larreae

What Eucera species is this? - Ancylandrena larreae - male

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 Ancylandrena

Pronunciation

ann-sill-ann-DREE-nuh

Explanation of Names

Ancylandrena Cockerell 1930

Numbers

5 spp., all in our area(1)

Identification

Similar to Andrena. Differs by:

Moderate to strongly protruding clypeus

Hind coxa short

Slightly enlarged distitarsi

Range

USA: California to Utah to New Mexico.

Mexico: Baja Califronia and Sonora.

(Discover Life Map)(1)

Remarks

Hexepeolus are cleptoparasites of Ancylandrena (Rozen 1994)

See Also

Andrena

Print References

Cockerell, T. D. A. (1930). A new subgenus of Andrenine bees. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist., 7, 5–8. Full Text Here

Original Description of the genus.

Zavortink, T. J. (1974). A Revision of the Genus Ancylandrena (Hymenoptera:Andrenidae) (Vol. 109). California Academy of Sciences,. Full Text Here

1974 Revision of the genus

Rozen, J. G. (1992). Biology of the bee Ancylandrena larreae (Andrenidae, Andreninae) and its cleptoparasite Hexepeolus rhodogyne (Anthophoridae, Nomadinae) : with a review of egg deposition in the Nomadinae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum novitates ; no. 3038. Full Text Here

Rozen, J. G. (1994). Biologies of the bee genera Ancylandrena (Andrenidae, Andreninae) and Hexepeolus (Apidae, Nomadinae) : and phylogenetic relationships of Ancylandrena based on its mature larva (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum novitates ; no. 3108. Full Text Here

Internet References

Discover Life

iNaturalist

GBIF

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 23 June, 2008 - 8:06pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, v belov, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 7 August, 2021 - 7:01am

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