Revisions to the Andrena fauna of north-western Africa with a focus on Morocco (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
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-12-21
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journal article
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Andrena lusitania
Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez, 2022
This species was described from south-western
Spain
and central
Portugal
, where it flies early in the season in March and April (
Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez 2022
;
Wood 2023
). A single female specimen was collected from the Col du Zad in the Middle Atlas at an elevation of
2100 m
(full collecting details below). The Moroccan specimen differed from the barcode sequence generated from the
holotype
male of
A. lusitania
(IBIHM998-21) by just 0.72%. The presence of
A. lusitania
in the Middle Atlas further reinforces the ecological link between
Iberia
and the Middle Atlas as seen here for
Euandrena
and
Micrandrena
, as well as other
Andrena
lineages (
Wood 2023
).
Material examined
MOROCCO
•
1 ♀
;
Fès-Meknès
,
Tiguelmamine
,
Col du Zad
;
2100 m
a.s.l.
;
21 May 2022
;
T.J. Wood
leg.; BOLD:
WPATW696-22
;
TJWC
.
Distribution
Portugal
,
Spain
,
Morocco
* (
Wood 2023
).