Author: Nylander, 1848

Type species: Panurginus niger Nylander, 1848, monobasic.
Synonyms: Scrapter Lepeletier, 1841 (not Scrapter Lepeletier and Serville, 1828); Scrapteroides Gribodo, 1894; Greeleyella Cockerell, 1904; Birkmania Viereck, 1909.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Andrenidae
Subfamily: Panurginae
Tribe: Panurgini
Distinctive traits
  • Small bees
  • 2 submarginal cells, with submarginal cell 1 longer than 2
  • Truncated marginal cell
  • Females with sparse and short pilosity on posterior tibia and basitarsus.
Pictures of distinctive traits
Morphologically close genera and how to distinguish them:
  • Panurginus - Clavipanurgus
Panurginus species have a rounded vertex. They tend to be smaller (vertex to sting < 8mm)
Clavipanurgus species have a vertex elevated on the sides (above the gena), so that the bee seem square-headed. They tend to be larger (vertex to sting around 9mm).
  • Panurginus - Camptopoeum, Flavipanurgus, Panurgus & Simpanurgus
Panurginus species have submarginal cell 2 smaller than cell 1, recurrent vein 1 almost touching cubital transverse vein 1. Females have sparse and short hairs on posterior tibia and basitarsus.
Camptopoeum, Flavipanurgus, Panurgus & Simpanurgus species submarginal cell 1 of similar size than cell 2, recurrent vein 1 distant from cubital transverse vein 1. Females have dense and long pilosity on posterior tibia and basitarsus.
  • Panurginus - Ammobates, Biastes, Parammobatodes & Pasites
Panurginus has a flat clypeus and a short-tongue morphology of mouthparts (short maxillary palpi).
Ammobates, Biastes, Parammobatodes & Pasites have a somewhat protruding clypeus and a long-tongue morphology (segments 1 and 2 of maxillary palpi are strongly elongated).
General comments on Panurginus species identification
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Please check the reference(s) at the bottom of the page for traditional keys.
List of the 15 Panurginus species found in Europe (Ghisbain et al. 2023):
Panurginus albopilosus (Lucas, 1849)
Panurginus alpinus (Warncke, 1972)
Panurginus alticolus Morawitz, 1875
Panurginus annulatus  (Sichel, 1859)
Panurginus brullei (Lepeletier, 1841)
Panurginus corpanus (Warncke, 1972)
Panurginus herzi Morawitz, 1892
Panurginus labiatus (Eversmann, 1852)
Panurginus lactipennis Friese, 1897
Panurginus montanus Giraud, 1861
Panurginus romani Aurivillius, 1914
Panurginus schwarzi (Warncke, 1972)
Panurginus sericatus (Warncke, 1972)
Panurginus turcomanicus Popov, 1936
Panurginus tyrolensis Richards, 1932
References with identification keys for some of the species:
  • Osytshnjuk, A.Z. (1978). Semejstvo Andreninae – Andrenidy. In Opredelitel nasekomych evropejskoj chasti SSSR. (pp. 315-369). Leningrad: Nauka.
  • Schmid-Egger C. & Scheuchl E. (1997) Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Österreichs unter Berücksichtigung der Arten der Schweiz. Band Andrenidae. Velden/Deutschland.
  • Patiny, S. (1999). Description de nouvelles espèces de Camptopoeum Spinola, 1843 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae, Panurginae). Notes fauniques de Gembloux, 37, 71-76.
  • Wood, T. J., & Cross, I. (2017). Camptopoeum (Camptopoeum) baldocki spec. nov., a new panurgine bee species from Portugal and a description of the male of Flavipanurgus fuzetus Patiny (Andrenidae: Panurginae). Zootaxa, 4254(2), 285-293.
Online resources:
Atlas hymenoptera (Europe)
Discover Life (World)
WestPalBees (West Palearctic)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2019)
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2023)

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References used to write this page:
  • Ghisbain, G., Rosa, P., Bogusch, P., Flaminio, S., Le Divelec, R., Dorchin, A., Kasparek, M., Kuhlmann, M., Litman, J., Mignot, M., Müller, A., Praz, C., Radchenko, V.G., Rasmont, P., Risch, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Smit, J., Wood, T.J., Michez, D. & Reverte, S. (2023). The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila). Zootaxa, 5327(1), 1-147.
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