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Danubian Miner

Andrena danuvia

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Austria.January 0, February 0, March 17, April 109, May 50, June 0, July 0, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Austria176
Wien145
Niederösterreich30
Bulgaria10
Greece8
Slovakia5
Romania5
Czechia4
Hungary4
Peloponisos-W. Greece & Ionian3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyMiner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Andrenidae
GenusMining Bees · Andrena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Danubian Miner with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.