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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) » Protandrenine Bees (Protandrenini)

Tribe Protandrenini - Protandrenine Bees

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited
Halictidae -? - Protandrena - male lasioglossum - Pseudopanurgus Little bee or wasp - Pseudopanurgus aethiops - female small black mining bee? - Pseudopanurgus Mating bees - Pseudopanurgus albitarsis - male - female Bee - Pseudopanurgus - male Pseudopanurgus aethiops - male Protandrena albitarsis - Pseudopanurgus - male - female
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)
Tribe Protandrenini (Protandrenine Bees)
Explanation of Names
Protandrenini Robertson 1904
Type genus: Protandrena
Numbers
94 spp. in 2 genera in our area, >400 spp. in 10 genera total(1)
Size
small, some minute
Range
New World, most genera and spp. neotropical(1)
Life Cycle
see Rozen (1989)
Print References
Neff J.L., Rozen J.G., Jr. (1995) Foraging and nesting biology of the bee Anthemurgus passiflorae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), descriptions of its immature stages, and observations on its floral host (Passifloraceae). Am. Mus. Nov. 3138: 19 pp.
Rozen J.G., Jr. (1989) Life history studies of the "primitive" panurgine bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Panurginae). Am. Mus. Nov. 2962: 27 pp.
Timberlake P.H. (1964) Some new species of Pseudopanurgus of the subgenus Heterosarus Robertson (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Am. Mus. Nov. 2185: 26 pp.
Timberlake P.H. (1967) New species of Pseudopanurgus from Arizona (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Am. Mus. Nov. 2298: 23 pp.
Timberlake P.H. (1969) Metapsaenythia, a new panurgine bee genus (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). Ent. News 80: 89-92.
Timberlake P.H. (1973) Revision of the genus Pseudopanurgus of North America (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). UC Pub. Entomol. 72: 58 pp.
Timberlake P.H. (1975) The North American species of Heterosarus Robertson (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). UC Pub. Entomol 77: 56 pp.
Timberlake P.H. (1976) Revision of the North American bees of the genus Protandrena (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 102: 133-228.
Works Cited
1.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by John S. Ascher on 22 October, 2011 - 11:47am
Additional contributions by v belov, hg, PaleoJon
Last updated 26 September, 2023 - 4:46pm

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