TY - JOUR JF - mdrsjrns JO - J. Insect Biodivers. Syst VL - 1 IS - 1 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/9/01 TI - A preliminary list of Andrena subgenera (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) of Iran, with five new records TT - N2 - The list of forty one subgenera of the genus Andrena from Iran is given. The list provided here is based on a detailed study of all available published data. Four subgenera and five species are recorded for the first time from Iran, including Andrena (Cnemidandrena) fuscipes (Kirby, 1802), Andrena (Lepidandrena) curvungula (Thomson, 1870), Andrena (Lepidandrena) pandellei (Pérez, 1895), Andrena (Parandrena) sericata (Imhoff, 1868) and Andrena (Platygalandrena) tecta (Radoszkowski, 1876). Ecological notes on the newly recorded species are briefly discussed. SP - 61 EP - 75 AU - Allahverdi, Safoora AU - Nadimi, Ahmad AU - Afshari, Ali AU - Aliyev, Khalid AD - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Plant Production, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran KW - Andrena KW - Apoidea KW - Iran KW - Sand bees UR - http://jibs.modares.ac.ir/article-36-9266-en.html ER -