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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 Belandrena (Andrena Subgenus Belandrena) » Andrena palpalis
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Robust looking bee - Andrena palpalis - female
Copyright © 2009 Hartmut Wisch

Robust looking bee - Andrena palpalis - Female
Clark Valley, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 5, 2009
I think I can see three submarginals, a very long & pointed marginal cell;scopa point to female. Thoracic color seems interesting (at least new to me). Not sure whether this fuzzy photo can be sufficiently read, but its the only one I managed to take.
She's in a Phacelia distans.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 13 March, 2009 - 4:12pm

Congratulations...
...on adding another new California species to the Guide!
… Harsi S. Parker, 13 March, 2009 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

Andrena female
probably Andrena (Belandrena) palpalis Timberlake

That is a common Phacelia specialist in California
… John S. Ascher, 13 March, 2009 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the quick answer, John!
Now I can even see parts of the facial fovea.
… Hartmut Wisch, 13 March, 2009 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

 
it would be helpful to post more images if possible
to confirm the det. The abdomen should be metallic blue (not bright) with white hair bands
… John S. Ascher, 13 March, 2009 - 9:11pm login or register to post comments

 
I'll be in that area
next week & will try some more photos. For now, I have only one other blurry picture which doesn't show enough of the abdomen.
… Hartmut Wisch, 13 March, 2009 - 10:06pm login or register to post comments

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