Andrena obscuripennis

Andrena obscuripennis, the dark-winged miner, is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3]

Andrena obscuripennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Andrenidae
Genus: Andrena
Species:
A. obscuripennis
Binomial name
Andrena obscuripennis
Smith, 1853

The currently known distribution of this species is Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Ontario [Canada].[4][5][6][7] Mitchell's books on the bees of the Eastern United States originally included New Jersey and Louisiana as part of the distribution, but those records could not be validated.[4][8] Additional records from coastal areas of South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland are available in online repositories.

Unfortunately, little is known about the biology or life history of this species, though in a study conducted in Georgia on the flight heights of bees, one individual was collected within 0.5 m of the ground while none were collected in the canopy.[9]

References
  1. "Andrena obscuripennis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Andrena obscuripennis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Bouseman, J.; LaBerge, W. (1978). "A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part IX. Subgenus Melandrena". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 104: 275‑389.
  4. Parys, K. A.; Tripodi, A. L.; Sampson, B. J. (2018). "New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi". Biodiversity Data Journal. 6 (e25230). Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  5. Woodcock, T; Pekkola, L; Dawson, C; Gadallah, F; Kevan, P (2014). "Development of a Pollination Service Measurement (PSM) method using potted plant phytometry". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 186 (8): 5041‑5057.
  6. Parcarella, J. "The Bees of Florida". The Bees of Florida. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  7. Mitchell, T. B. (1960). Bees of the Eastern United States, Volume 1. North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 141. p. 538.
  8. Ulyshen, M. D.; Soon, V.; Hanula, J. L. (2010). "On the vertical distribution of bees in a temperate deciduous forest". Insect Conservation and Diversity. 3: 222–228. doi:10.1111/j.1752-4598.2010.00092.x.

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