Protandrena

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Andrenidae
Subfamilia: Panurginae
Tribus: Protandrenini
Genus: Protandrena
Subgenera: P. (Andinopanurgus) – P. (Austropanurgus) – P. (Hetrosarus) – P. (Metapsaenythia) – P. (Parasarus) – P. (Protandrena) – P. (Pterosarus)

Name

Protandrena Cockerell, 1896: 91.

Type species: Protandrena maurula Cockerell, 1896, by subsequent designation in Sandhouse 1943:591.

Gender: feminine [Note: Inference of feminine gender from formation of the genus name derived from existing genus Andrena, plus feminine suffix formation of adjectival Protandrena trifoliata & Protandrena heteromorpha in the original description].

References

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. The Bees of the Genus Andrena found in New Mexico. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 6(18) [103]: 78–92. BHL Reference page. 
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. VII. Observations on Bees, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 6(18) [106]: 282–295. BHL Reference page. 
• Gonzalez, V.H. & Engel, M.S. 2011. Andinopanurgus, a new Andean subgenus of Protandrena (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). ZooKeys 126: 57–76. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.126.1676 . Reference page. 

Links

• EoL [needs update]
• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus