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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) » Oxaeine Bees (Oxaeinae) » Protoxaea

Genus Protoxaea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Eucerini? - Protoxaea gloriosa - female Eucerini? - Protoxaea gloriosa Unknown Bee - Protoxaea gloriosa unkn bee - Protoxaea gloriosa Bee - Protoxaea gloriosa - male ??? - Protoxaea gloriosa Eight-mile bee - Protoxaea gloriosa Which bee? - Protoxaea gloriosa - male
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 Oxaeinae (Oxaeine Bees)
Genus Protoxaea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Mesoxaea is now considered a distinct genus rather than a subgenus of Protoxaea
Explanation of Names
Authors: Cockerell and Porter
Numbers
a single species in our area, 3 spp. total(1)
Size
Large for an andrenid
Range
sw. US to Mexico (map)(1)
Internet References
Hurd, P. D., Jr., and E. G. Linsley. 1976. The bee family Oxaeidae with a revision of the North American species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 220: 1-75.
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 6 August, 2010 - 9:49am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 3:04am

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