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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 Plastandrena (Andrena Subgenus Plastandrena) » Andrena prunorum
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Andrenid bee - Andrena prunorum - male
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Andrenid bee - Andrena prunorum - Male
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 29, 2006
Size: 10-12mm
Feeding in Ceanothus cuneatus var. fascicularis. Brightly colored, very fast insect; obvious in a shrub otherwise dominated by honey bees.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 30 March, 2006 - 12:27am
Last updated 15 November, 2010 - 6:58pm

Moved
Moved from Mining Bees.
… Hartmut Wisch, 29 September, 2006 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

Andrena (Plastandrena) prunorum Cockerell, 1896
male
… John S. Ascher, 29 September, 2006 - 7:05pm login or register to post comments

Andrenid bee (Andrenidae) - male
Very similar to a female submitted from New Mexico two days ago, except that abdominal cuticle is less extensively red (limited to a part of 2nd urotergite). Sexual dimorphism, as well as geographical variation, could explain this difference.
… Richard Vernier, 30 March, 2006 - 6:12am login or register to post comments

 
Doeringiella?
How about a cuckoo bee like Doeringiella (Triepeolus)?
… Adalbert Goertz, 15 May, 2006 - 11:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Andrenid
Thanks, Richard! I haven't found the image from New Mexico yet. Perhaps I'll see this insect again this weekend and take some better shots.
… Hartmut Wisch, 30 March, 2006 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

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