Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) Author Cornalba, Maurizio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-6664 Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Author Quaranta, Marino https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-4555 Centro di Ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente, (CREA) Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Bologna, Italy Author Selis, Marco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8200-9441 Via dei Tarquini, Viterbo, Italy Author Flaminio, Simone https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5823-1202 Centro di Ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente, (CREA) Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Bologna, Italy & Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons, Monsa, Belgium Author Gamba, Sirio https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3566-2517 Strada Sanferian, San Biagio della Cima (Imperia), Italy Author Mei, Maurizio Department of Biology and Biotechnology " Charles Darwin ", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Author Bonifacino, Marco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-3965 Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Author Cappellari, Andree https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6726-1323 Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padova, Padova, Italy Author Catania, Roberto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9950-9653 Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di 3 A), sec. Applied Entomology, Catania, Italy Author Niolu, Pietro https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0842-6856 Via Sassari, Alghero, Italy Author Tempesti, Stefano Via Vincenzo Bellini, Santa Sofia (Forli-Cesena), Italy Author Biella, Paolo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-006X Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy paolo.biella@unimib.it text Biodiversity Data Journal 2024 2024-02-16 12 116014 116014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e116014 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e116014 1314-2828-12-e116014 3D187B60F0DA59928BC8BEAFC0F29A20 Andrena amieti Praz, Mueller , Genoud, 2019 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Marco Selis ; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: C 841AD 1C-06CB-55D4-BFB4-DFAE07E3BE6C ; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio ; county: Rieti ; municipality: Lonessa ; locality: Sella di Leonessa ; verbatimElevation: 1700-1870 m ; verbatimLatitude: 42.48; verbatimLongitude: 13.0075; Identification : identifiedBy: Marco Selis , vid. T.J. Wood ; Event : eventDate: 2021-07-28 ; Record Level : collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Marco Selis ; sex: 1 male , 1 female ; occurrenceID: 3A847C05-22A0-51A3-8D4B-71EF918B8D19 ; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio ; county: Rieti ; municipality: Lonessa ; locality: Sella di Leonessa ; verbatimElevation: 1700-1870 m ; verbatimLatitude: 42.48; verbatimLongitude: 13.0075; Identification : identifiedBy: Marco Selis , vid. T.J. Wood ; Event : eventDate: 2022-06-19 ; Record Level : collectionCode: MSC Notes In Italy, Andrena amieti had previously been recorded throughout the Alps and on Monte Pollino in Calabria ( Praz et al. 2019 ). Our find shows that it also occurs in the Central Apennines, as was to be expected. It is shown by Praz et al. (2019) that two divergent mitochondrial lineages are found in A. amieti . One lineage, called Group 1, is reported from Calabria and, sparingly, from the Alps. The other lineage occurs widely in the Alps. DNA barcoding of one of our specimens confirmed the morphological identification and showed that the specimen belongs to Group 1. The match with the two sequences from Calabria in BOLD (ID: HYMAA051-18, HYMAA052-18) is 100% and 99.61%.