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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 Micrandrena (Andrena Subgenus Micrandrena) » Andrena piperi
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Tiny Mining Bee - Andrena piperi - female
Copyright © 2009 Alice Cavette

Tiny Mining Bee - Andrena piperi - Female
Lake Elizabeth, Fremont, Alameda County, California, USA
May 7, 2009
Size: ~1cm

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Contributed by Alice Cavette on 7 May, 2009 - 4:12pm
Last updated 7 December, 2009 - 2:31pm

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… John S. Ascher, 7 December, 2009 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

Andrena female
note narrow facial foveae

My first impression is that this could be Andrena (Micrandrena) piperi Viereck, 1904, but I'm not sure and can't check specimens until Monday.
… John S. Ascher, 9 May, 2009 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Any Luck?
Any luck determining if this is a piperi?
… Alice Cavette, 19 May, 2009 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for your time...
John,

Thanks for your time in identifying this bee.

How you could come up with the Andrena piperi out of all those Andrena species is beyond me!

Searched the web for any Andrena piperi photo or drawing to help but came up with nothing.

There are lots of them here and I could probably take more (better) photos if you need them.
… Alice Cavette, 9 May, 2009 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

 
please take more photos
many common species in your area (and nearly everywhere else) have never been identified from photos by anyone ever (hence lack of images on the web)
… John S. Ascher, 6 December, 2009 - 10:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Other Bee Images
John,

If you want to look at other Bee images I have collected but not posted on BG, see my private site Bee pages from Lake Elizabeth and Home.

Anything with a caption of just "Bee", hasn't been posted. Let me know if you can id any and/or if you want me to post them.

I'll be on the lookout for more come Spring :)
… Alice Cavette, 8 December, 2009 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Spring...
You'll have to wait until Spring for more :)

Did you decide this really is a piperi?
… Alice Cavette, 6 December, 2009 - 11:37pm login or register to post comments

 
I believe it is
note very narrow facial foveae and gray tomentum covering scutum
… John S. Ascher, 7 December, 2009 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

Lasioglossum?
.
… Adalbert Goertz, 9 May, 2009 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

 
Might be...
Maybe Lasioglossum sisymbrii???
… Alice Cavette, 9 May, 2009 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

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