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For the United States & Canada

Species Pseudopanurgus compositarum

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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)
No Taxon (rudbeckiae species group/Pterosarus)
Species compositarum (Pseudopanurgus compositarum)
Range
Maryland to Georgia, west to Indiana and Illinois.
Season
September and October.
Food
Recorded on Aster. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.
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