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 Anthophora fulvitarsis Brulle , 1832 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: 20DC669A-B955-5E66-ADFA-8F9F14EF2EE6 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-10 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: 85EA0B68-68E7-5B92-A00A-1A69E5EAF2C3 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-11 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: 9BFF57A4-887D-5A2F-BEF8-BC1BF938F64F ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-12 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Notes Our specimens were found in an urban setting, in an abandoned railway yard. We are not aware of any other recent record of A. fulvitarsis in Italy. According to Comba (2019) , the only literature record, from Sicilia, is in Sichel (1860) . Images: Suppl. material 2, Figs. S16-S18.