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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 Dactylandrena (Andrena Subgenus Dactylandrena)
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Andrena (Dactylandrena) - Andrena - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Andrena (Dactylandrena) - Andrena - Female
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 29, 2006
Osmia or Megachile?
This small bee shuttled quickly from one flower to another, mostly in the inner parts of the Chaparral Current (Ribes malvaceum var. viridifolium, see adjacent photo). Here it is seen sunning on a leaf of a neighboring shrub, Lemonadeberry (Rhus integrifolia).
This January I observed these insects in White Flowering Current (Ribes indecorum), completely ignoring the flowering Manzanitas.

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Andrena (Dactylandrena) - Andrena - female Andrena (Dactylandrena) - Andrena - female Andrena (Dactylandrena) - Andrena - female
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 1 April, 2006 - 12:25am
Last updated 12 December, 2009 - 9:56am

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Dactylandrena.
… John S. Ascher, 18 April, 2009 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 15 March, 2008 - 12:36am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mining Bees.
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 October, 2006 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Andrena
was this bee green or black? If black it could be A. (Dactylandrena) as in the other image
… John S. Ascher, 29 September, 2006 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Appeared black -
I just submitted another version of the same image. Don't know why it appears greenish in this down-sized version.

Also, clearly partial to Ribes!
… Hartmut Wisch, 29 September, 2006 - 8:34pm login or register to post comments

Neither of both...
Because there are three submarginal cells, the second distinctly smaller than the third. This, together with overall habitus and relatively short maxillar galeae, indicate an Andrenid bee (Andrenidae)
… Richard Vernier, 3 April, 2006 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the wake-up call, Richard.
I do see the three submarginal cells (better on my monitor; lately I noticed that images pale somewhat, and become a bit less clear after submission to this site), also that the second is clearly smaller than the third. Hope to take some better shots to see the rest.
… Hartmut Wisch, 4 April, 2006 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

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