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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 · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited
Clear wing bee on Potentilla - Panurginus - male Andrenidae - ? - Calliopsis subalpina - female Perdita bicuspidariae - male Perdita - Perdita perpallida - male - female Bee - Perdita Goblin Bee - Macrotera - female Panurginus? - Panurginus small black bee, white hairs - Panurginus
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
Explanation of Names
Panurginae Leach 1815
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. Marginal cell truncate at apex; usually 2 submarginal cells.
Range
worldwide, but NA has >⅔ of spp. and the Old World just ~160 spp.; in the Old World, restricted to w. Palaearctic & Africa (2 spp. in E.Asia); the 3 tribes absent in NA are tiny (4 spp. combined) and restricted to Brazil or Chile(1)
Season
most are univoltine and have a short flight season
Food
most are specialists
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) 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 26 September, 2023 - 4:17pm

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