Hymenoptera of North Carolina
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Andrena chromotricha Cockerell, 1899 - No Common Name

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Taxonomy
Family: Andrenidae Subfamily: AndreninaeChecklist Number: 105.00                                                                                  
Species Status: The type locality is Grandfather Mountain, NC (Mitchell, 1960)
Identification
Field Guide Descriptions: Online Photographs: BugGuide, Discover Life, GBIF, iNaturalist
                                                                                 
Distribution in North Carolina
Distribution: This is a primarily northern species, also found in the Rocky Mountains. The sole record for North Carolina comes from Grandfather Mountain; the next nearest records appear to be from the mountains of northern Virginia and West Virginia.
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Flight Dates:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
Habitats:
Larval Host Plants: This species has been observed pollnating a large number of plants, mainly in the Asteraceae (Discover Life, accessed 2019-12-12)
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Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status: [W3]
Natural Heritage Program Ranks: GNR [SH]
State Protection:
Comments: In North Carolina, this species is only known from a single historic record, at a site that is highly disjunct from the rest of its range. It appears to be a high elevation species and could be a Pleistocene relict, as has been hypothesized for a number of other disjunct species occurring at high elevations in our mountains. If still extant, it is likely to be of high conservation concern.