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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)

Subfamily Panurginae - Panurgine Bees

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited
Could this be Perdita rhois? - Perdita rhois Perdita sp? on Stephanomeria - Perdita bee 9 - Calliopsis Small Bee - Perdita bee ? Potter & Mason group ? - Protandrena Perdita sp.? - Perdita - female Small bee - Perdita - female unknown bee - Perdita
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 Panurginae (Panurgine Bees)
Other Common Names
Shaggy Bees for the Old World genus Panurgus
Numbers
734 spp. in 6 genera of 3 tribes in our area, ~1,400 spp. in 35 genera of 6 tribes worldwide (almost half of the world's spp. are in Perdita)(1)
Identification
usually smaller, less hairy than Andreninae, and sometimes have yellow- or cream-coloured markings on all tagmata.
Apex of marginal cell truncate, and usuallly only two submarginal cells.
Range
worldwide, but >2/3 spp. in NA and just ~160 in the Old World, where they are restricted to w. Palaearctic & Africa (+2 spp. in e. Asia); the 3 tribes absent in NA are tiny (4 spp. combined) are all restricted to Brazil or Chile(1)
Season
most are univoltine and have a short flight season
Food
most are specialists, collecting pollen from a single plant taxon
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 9 November, 2005 - 4:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 13 December, 2021 - 4:02pm

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