A preliminary list of Andrena subgenera (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) of Iran, with five new records

The list of 41 subgenera of the genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 from Iran is given. The list provided here is based on a detailed study of all available published data and current study. 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