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Andrena accepta

The two-spotted miner bee is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America. Members of the species have communal nests made of many cells. They live in desert scrub habitat. Their primary host plants belong to the genus Helianthus.

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Andrena accepta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Andrenidae
Genus: Andrena
Species:
A. accepta
Binomial name
Andrena accepta
Viereck, 1916

The two-spotted miner bee1 (Andrena accepta) is a species of miner bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in Central America and North America.234 Members of the species have communal nests made of many cells. They live in desert scrub habitat. Their primary host plants belong to the genus Helianthus.5

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  1. "Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada". National General Status Working Group. 2020.
  2. "Andrena accepta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. "Andrena accepta". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  4. Rozen, Jerome G. (1973). "Biology Notes on the Bee Andrena accepta Viereck (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 81 (1): 54–61. ISSN 0028-7199. JSTOR 25008852.
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