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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) » Pseudopanurgus sensu lato NEEDS UPDATING to Genus Protandrena (Pseudopanurgus)

Genus Pseudopanurgus - Pseudopanurgus sensu lato NEEDS UPDATING to Genus Protandrena

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Yellow-legged bee on chocolate flower - Pseudopanurgus aethiops - male Bees 5888 - Pseudopanurgus - male - female Tiny bee mating. - Pseudopanurgus - male - female bee ? - Pseudopanurgus Halictid? green eyes, yellow face - Pseudopanurgus andrenoides Small, black bee - Pseudopanurgus aethiops Pseudopanurgus - female Protandrena aethiops - Pseudopanurgus aethiops
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)
Genus Pseudopanurgus (Pseudopanurgus sensu lato NEEDS UPDATING to Genus Protandrena)
Explanation of Names
Author: Cockerell

Pseudopanurgus refers to their rough resemblance to Panurgus, which is found in Europe (1)
Numbers
71 spp. in our area, 135 spp. total(2)
Range
New World, mostly nearctic (some spp. apparently introduced into e. Africa & e. Australia) (map)(2)
Print References
Linsley, E. G., J. W. MacSwain, and R. F. Smith. 1956. Association of Holcopasites with Pseudopanurgus in Mexico (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae, Andrenidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 32: 82.

Mitchell, T. B. 1960. Bees of the eastern United States, vol. 1. 538: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin No. 141: 538 pp.

Rozen, J. G., Jr. 1997. A new species of the bee Heterosarus from Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae; Panurginae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69: 346-352.

Timberlake, P. H. 1964. Some new species of Pseudopanurgus of the subgenus Heterosarus Robertson (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum Novitates no. 2185: 26 pp.

Timberlake, P. H. 1967. New species of Pseudopanurgus from Arizona (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). American Museum Novitates no. 2298: 23 pp.

Timberlake, P. H. 1973. Revision of the genus Pseudopanurgus of North America (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 72: 58 pp.

Timberlake, P. H. 1975. The North American species of Heterosarus Robertson (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). University of California Publications in Entomology 77: 56 pp.
Works Cited
1.The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees.
Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia J. Messinger Carril. 2015. Princeton University Press.
2.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 5 October, 2006 - 7:10pm
Additional contributions by John S. Ascher, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 25 September, 2024 - 11:35pm

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