Revisions to the Andrena fauna of Italy, with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) Author Wood, Thomas James University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du Parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium - thomasjames. wood @ umons. ac. be; paolo. rosa @ umons. ac. be; romain. ledivelec @ umons. ac. be; denis. michez @ umons. ac. be thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be Author Praz, Christophe University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland - christophe. praz @ unine. ch & InfoFauna - Swiss Zoological Records Center, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland christophe.praz@unine.ch Author Selis, Marco Via dei Tarquini 22, IT- 01100 Viterbo, Italy - marcozetsu @ hotmail. it marcozetsu@hotmail.it Author Flaminio, Simone University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du Parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium - thomasjames. wood @ umons. ac. be; paolo. rosa @ umons. ac. be; romain. ledivelec @ umons. ac. be; denis. michez @ umons. ac. be & CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Bologna, Italy, via di Corticella 133, 40128 Bologna, Italy - simone. flaminio @ crea. gov. it thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be&simone.flaminio@crea.gov.it Author Mei, Maurizio University of Rome “ Sapienza ”, Zoological Museum, Piazzale Valerio Massimo 6, 00162 Rome, Italy - maurizio. mei @ uniroma 1. it maurizio.mei@uniroma1.it Author Cornalba, Maurizio University of Pavia, Department of Mathematics, via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy - maurizio. cornalba @ unipv. it maurizio.cornalba@unipv.it Author Rosa, Paolo University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du Parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium - thomasjames. wood @ umons. ac. be; paolo. rosa @ umons. ac. be; romain. ledivelec @ umons. ac. be; denis. michez @ umons. ac. be thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be Author Divelec, Romain Le University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du Parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium - thomasjames. wood @ umons. ac. be; paolo. rosa @ umons. ac. be; romain. ledivelec @ umons. ac. be; denis. michez @ umons. ac. be thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be Author Michez, Denis University of Mons, Research Institute for Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, Place du Parc 20, 7000, Mons, Belgium - thomasjames. wood @ umons. ac. be; paolo. rosa @ umons. ac. be; romain. ledivelec @ umons. ac. be; denis. michez @ umons. ac. be thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be text Fragmenta entomologica 2023 2023-12-21 55 2 271 310 http://dx.doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1542 journal article 10.13133/2284-4880/1542 2284-4880 12763254 Andrena ( Cordandrena ) cordialis Morawitz, 1877 Remarks. Andrena cordialis is a typical species of the Pannonian Basin and Eastern Europe to Central Asia. It is therefore surprising to encounter material of this species in Sicily. The specimen collected by Teunissen was provisionally identified by Warncke as A. vaulogeri Pérez, 1895 , a species found in Spain , Morocco , Algeria , and Tunisia . However, this identification was incorrect as the tergal punctures are too sparse. Though A. vaulogeri could have been expected to be present in Sicily due to the known faunal links between this island and north-western Africa, a surprisingly large number of more typically eastern Andrena species are also present (see Results, see Discussion), and hence the detection of A. cordialis fits into this emerging pattern. Material examined. ITALY : SICILY : 3♀ , 35 km N Gela , NE Piazza Armeri- na, 27–29 May 2002 , leg. J. Halada , ( OÖLM ) ; 1♀ , Pergusa, 9–10 May 1975 , leg. H. Teunissen ( OÖLM ) . Distribution. Italy *, Austria , Slovenia , Hungary , Serbia , Romania , North Macedonia , Bulgaria , Greece , Moldova , Ukraine , Russia , Turkey to the Caucasus and Iran , Central Asia and north-western China ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002 ; Astafurova et al. 2021 ; Wood 2021).