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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) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Protandrenine Bees (Protandrenini) » Protandrena » Protandrena cockerelli
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bee_maybe Ceratina with white face - Protandrena cockerelli - female
Copyright © 2021 Bill Maynard

bee_maybe Ceratina with white face - Protandrena cockerelli - Female
Chico Basin Ranch, Pueblo County, Colorado, USA
August 24, 2019
on desert milkweed
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Contributed by Bill Maynard on 23 February, 2021 - 1:08pm
Last updated 24 February, 2021 - 1:46am

Maay be a first county record for genus
P. cockerelli (but not P. bancrofti) is known from adjoining Crowley and Las Animas Counties
… John S. Ascher, 24 February, 2021 - 1:48am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you very much for the I
Thank you very much for the ID!
… Bill Maynard, 24 February, 2021 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 24 February, 2021 - 1:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Biagi, 23 February, 2021 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

Female
She has too much white color on her face for Hyleus and the blue-eyes don't fit either. She might be something like Protandrena mexicanorum. Hold on for an expert.
… Bob Biagi, 23 February, 2021 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Note range in Bees of Colorado
Species present are P. bancrofti and P. cockerelli (note: was confused historically with mexicanoruum. The former has smaller yellow face markings
… John S. Ascher, 24 February, 2021 - 1:48am login or register to post comments

...maybe Hylaeus punctatus?
...maybe Hylaeus punctatus?
… Bill Maynard, 23 February, 2021 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Please learn bee families
before guessing at species
… John S. Ascher, 24 February, 2021 - 1:51am login or register to post comments

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