Andrenidae
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thumb|Andrena sp. The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It includes some enormous genera (e.g., Andrena with over 1300 species, and Perdita with over 700). One of the subfamilies, Oxaeinae, is so different in appearance that they were typically accorded family status, but careful phylogenetic analysis reveals them to be an offshoot within the Andrenidae, very close to the Andreninae.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Andrenidae is referenced by 480 other articles, and connects out to Hymenoptera, Spheciformes and Alocandrena porteri.
It sits within the topics Andrenidae and Bee families.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyAndrenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,467
- With media
- 180
- Family
- Andrenidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, UAM, UMNH, VPI
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Bee February 2008-3.jpg
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- taxon name
- Andrenidae
- Commons category
- Andrenidae
- taxon common name
- gravebier
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- "Nocturnal" species
- Genera
- References
- External links
thumb|Andrena sp. The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It includes some enormous genera (e.g., Andrena with over 1300 species, and Perdita with over 700). One of the subfamilies, Oxaeinae, is so different in appearance that they were typically accorded family status, but careful phylogenetic analysis reveals them to be an offshoot within the Andrenidae, very close to the Andreninae.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrenidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.