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title: "Tawny Mining Bee"
description: "Andrena fulva — Insetos e aranhas. The tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, is a European species of the sand bee (Andrena) genus."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/tawny-mining-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tawny Mining Bee

> Andrena fulva — Insetos e aranhas. The tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, is a European species of the sand bee (Andrena) genus.

- Scientific name: *Andrena fulva*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados)
- iNaturalist observations: 10666
- Wikidata: [Q1970391](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1970391)
- iNaturalist taxon: [60579](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/60579)

## Names

- en: Tawny Mining Bee
- de: Rotpelzige Sandbiene
- es: Abeja minera dorada
- fr: Andrène fauve
- nl: Vosje
- pl: Pszczolinka ruda

## Countries with the most observations

GB (3827), DK (1855), DE (1607), PL (510), FR (508), AT (318), CZ (233), BE (221), SE (211), NL (208), IT (72), ES (71)

## Summary

The tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, is a European species of the sand bee (Andrena) genus. The males are 10–12 mm (0.4–0.5 in) and the females 8–10 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long. The female is covered with fox-red hair on the dorsal surface of its thorax and abdomen and black hair on its head and ventral surface. The male is less distinctive, being clad in golden-brown or reddish-brown hairs, with some long white hairs on the face, and a tooth on each of the mandibles. 
The tawny mining bee lives in Europe, ranging from the Balkans to southern Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. It lives among short vegetation in…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_mining_bee

## Photo

![Tawny Mining Bee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tawny-mining-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Iain Robson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74421282

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/tawny-mining-bee?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).