Barbara's Andrena
Andrena barbara Bouseman & LaBerge, 1979
Barbara's Andrena: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/3069
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Regionally common to sometimes even abundant, this is one of the larger Andrena of the spring. It can occur in almost any habitat, gathering pollen from a wide variety of the abundant pollen and nectar sources that occur in woodlands and surrounding scrub lands.

Description

There is often just a slight glint of violet metallic sheen to its abdominal segments. In the picture of the face of this species, you can see quite well the slight indentations that make up the facial fovea, why these features are important enough to occur in almost every Andrena species is unknown and why they are aligned with small tiny hairs is also unknown. Something for future researchers to investigate. (As if there wasn't enough). (S. Droege, pers. comm.)

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Andrena barbara
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Andrenidae
Genus: Andrena
Species:
A. barbara
Binomial name
Andrena barbara
Bouseman & LaBerge, 1979

Andrena barbara is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Andrena barbara Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ "Andrena barbara". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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