Author: Panzer, 1806

Type species: Andrena lobata Panzer, 1799 = Andrena calcarata Scopoli, 1763, by designation of Latreille, 1810.
Subgenera: Euryvalvus Patiny, 1999; Pachycephalopanurgus Patiny, 1999; Panurgus s. str. Panzer, 1806.
Synonyms: Eriops Klug, 1807; Eryops Latreille, 1811;
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Andrenidae
Subfamily: Panurginae
Tribe: Panurgini
Distinctive traits
  • Small bee
  • 2 submarginal cells of equivalent size
  • Truncated marginal cell
  • Females with abundant pilosity on posterior tibia, with mixed spiralled and straight hairs.
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Morphologically close genera, and how to distinguish them:
  • Panurgus - Camptopoeum, Flavipanurgus & Simpanurgus
Panurgus has a brown/black cuticle on the head and / or metasoma. The female's scopa is a mix of spiralled and straight hairs.
Camptopoeum, Flavipanurgus & Simpanurgus species have a cuticle with yellow markings on the head and / or metasoma.
  • Panurgus - Clavipanurgus & Panurginus
Panurgus species have 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.
Clavipanurgus & 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.
  • Panurgus - Andrena
Panurgus species have a truncated marginal cell and two submarginal cells.
Andrena species have a pointed or rounded marginal cell.
  • Panurgus - Ammobates, Biastes, Parammobatodes & Pasites
Panurgus 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 Panurgus species identification
Panurgus species are distinguished among other things by their anal fringe and their propodeal sculpture.
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Please check the reference(s) at the bottom of the page for traditional keys.
List of the 13 Panurgus species found in Europe (IUCN 2014 + Rasmont et al 2017):
Panurgus (Euryvalvus) banksianus (Kirby, 1802)
Panurgus (Pachycephalopanurgus) canescens Latreille, 1811
Panurgus (Pachycephalopanurgus) meridionalis Patiny, Ortiz-Sánchez & Michez, 2005
Panurgus (Panurgus) calcaratus (Scopoli, 1763)
Panurgus (Panurgus) canarius Warncke, 1972
Panurgus (Panurgus) cephalotes Latreille, 1811
Panurgus (Panurgus) corsicus Warncke, 1972
Panurgus (Panurgus) dargius Warncke, 1972
Panurgus (Panurgus) dentipes Latreille, 1811
Panurgus (Panurgus) oblitus Warncke, 1972
Panurgus (Panurgus) perezi Saunders, 1882
Panurgus (Panurgus) pici Pérez, 1895
Panurgus (Panurgus) siculus Morawitz, 1872
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 (World, Europe & Belgium)
BWARS (UK)
Discover Life (World)
WestPalBees (West Palearctic)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2019)

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References used to write this page:
  • Michener, C.D. 2007. The Bees of the World, 2nd Edition. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Michez D., Rasmont P., Terzo, M., Vereecken, N. 2019. Abeilles d'Europes. Hymenoptères d'Europes, Volume 1. N.A.P. Editions.
  • Nieto, A., Roberts, S. P., Kemp, J., Rasmont, P., Kuhlmann, M., García Criado, M., ... & Michez, D. 2014. European red list of bees. Luxembourg: Publication Office of the European Union, 98. (IUCN 2014)
  •  Rasmont, P., Devalez, Jelle, Pauly, A., Michez, D. & Radchenko, V.G. 2017. Addition to the checklist of IUCN European wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 53: 17-32.