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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 Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena)
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Bee - Andrena - female
Copyright © 2009 John F. Carr

Bee - Andrena - Female
October Mountain State Forest, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 25, 2009
Size: 6 mm (approx.)
I would like to thank my assistant, the Flower Crab Spider in the background, for holding this bee still for me.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 26 June, 2009 - 9:00pm
Last updated 30 June, 2021 - 7:03pm

Andrena female
This could be Andrena perplexa. Note the visible pronotal angle characteristic of subgenus Tylandrena.
… John S. Ascher, 26 June, 2009 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

 
To subgenus?
Should this move to subgenus Tylandrena?

I added a few more shots but I don't think they show the diagnostic features.
… John F. Carr, 26 June, 2009 - 10:34pm login or register to post comments

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