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Gwynne's Mining Bee

Andrena bicolor

Classification

Class
Insecta

Andrena bicolor, or Gwynne's mining bee, is a common and widespread Western Palearctic mining bee which is found over most of Europe as well as North Africa and the Middle East and which reaches eastwards into Siberia. Description Andrena bicolor is a small to medium-sized mining bee, with the males being slightly smaller than the females. The females have a coat of reddish-brown hairs on the dorsal surface of the thorax, a wholly black-haired face and indistinct bands of yellowish hairs on the margins of the first to third tergites.

Distribution

Petra Fleurbaaij · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 6,386Germany · 1,427United Kingdom · 823Switzerland · 443France · 133Belgium · 28Luxembourg · 26Spain · 7Italy · 4