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 Nomada flavopicta (Kirby, 1802) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Roberto Catania; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: 63DE8D2F-31AB-5391-A04C-10141BA382A3 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicilia; county: Catania; municipality: Randazzo; locality: Lago Gurrida; verbatimElevation: 850 m ; verbatimLatitude: 37.8539; verbatimLongitude: 14.8997; Identification: identifiedBy: Roberto Catania; Event: eventDate: 2020-08-25 ; Record Level: collectionCode: RCC Notes Our record from the NW slope of Mount Etna appears to be the first for Sicilia. Two of the hosts of N. flavopicta , namely Melitta leporina (Panzer, 1799) and M. tricincta Kirby, 1802, occur on Mount Etna ( Nobile and Tomarchio 1997 ).