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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 Larandrena (Andrena Subgenus Larandrena) » Andrena miserabilis
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Bee - Andrena miserabilis - male
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Elliott

Bee - Andrena miserabilis - Male
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
April 9, 2006
Size: around 10 mm
I'm a little rusty with my bee IDing.
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 April, 2006 - 11:37am
Last updated 6 December, 2009 - 11:26pm

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… John S. Ascher, 6 December, 2009 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

yes, Andrena
male

looks like A. miserabilis
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2006 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

Andrena sp. - male
Combination of overall habitus and sickle-shaped mandibles is diagnostic. Only a part of the males of this large genus have such mandibles. They use them to fight each other, as they are very intolerant when waiting for females.
… Richard Vernier, 10 April, 2006 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

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