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Definition of Genus andrena

1. Noun. A solitary burrowing short-tongued bee.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Andrena

Literary usage of Genus andrena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum by Frederick Smith (1855)
"The wings as in the genus Andrena. The economy of this genus of bees is precisely similar to that of the genus Andrena ; we are only acquainted with three ..."

2. Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ: A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts by Louis Agassiz (1854)
"1661 ; Descriptions of British Bees belonging to the genus Andrena, pp. 1662, 1732, 1916. 8. Description of the British species of Bees comprised in the ..."

3. List of British Curculionidæ, with Synonyma by John Walton, British Museum (Natural History) (1856)
"The wings as in the genus Andrena. The economy of this genus of bees is precisely similar to that of the genus Andrena ; we are only acquainted with three ..."

4. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... in the form of a slipper with two »mall orifices by which insects cnn escape —Manner of fertilisation by small bees of the genus Andrena— ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"Thus the species of Nomada that live at the expense of species of the genus Andrena have no resemblance thereto. Friese further tells us that the Andrena ..."

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