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Species Andrena erythrogaster

Megachilidae sp ? - Andrena erythrogaster - female

Andrena erythrogaster? - Andrena erythrogaster

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)

Species erythrogaster (Andrena erythrogaster)

Other Common Names

Red-bellied Miner Bee

Identification

Note that in the eastern USA many A. erythrogaster have largely dark metasomas with only limited areas of red. Mitchell (1960) treated called the darker form of A. erythrogaster subspecies subaustralis, but A. subaustralis is now known to be a different, valid species of subgenus Tylandrena from the western USA.

Range

Widespread across US except west coast states

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Season

spring

Food

Salix (willows). The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Print References

Miliczky, E. R. 1988. Observations on the bionomics of the bee Andrena (Tylandrena) erythrogaster Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) with notes on A. (Micrandrena) personata Robertson and A. (Holandrena) c. cressonii Robertson. Illinois Natural History Survey Biological Notes 130: 18 pp.

Internet References

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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 1 July, 2005 - 5:43am
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 1 December, 2021 - 8:49pm

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