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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 Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena) » Andrena pertristis

Species Andrena pertristis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Print References · Internet References
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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 Andreninae (Mining Bees)
Genus Andrena
No Taxon (Subgenus Melandrena)
Species pertristis (Andrena pertristis)
Explanation of Names
Author: Cockerell, 1905
Size
Females 12-16 mm
Males
Identification
Nominative subspecies Andrena (Melandrena) pertristis pertristis has entirely dark vestiture in females.
Subspecies carliniformis has pale hair on thoracic dorsum, superficially resembling A. (Melandrena) carlini.
Males of both subspecies are "identical even in color" (Bouseman & LaBerge, 1978), with white to pale ochraceous hair on thoracic dorsum.
Females of both subspecies have incomplete flocculus on hind trochanters.
Print References
Bouseman, John K. and Wallace E. LaBerge. 1978. A Revision of the Genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part IX. Subgenus Melandrena. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 104(3/4): 275-389. (Available at JStor)
Internet References
Discover Life
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 26 June, 2014 - 12:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, PaleoJon
Last updated 1 July, 2023 - 7:26am

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