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 Pseudoanthidium stigmaticorne (Dours, 1873) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: BD721F71-8944-5A1F-B7BA-FE7B72C950A3 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Viterbo; locality: Necropoli etrusca di Norchia; verbatimElevation: 130-160 m ; verbatimLatitude: 42.3381; verbatimLongitude: 11.9456; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2019-06-01 ; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Sirio Gamba ; sex: 1 male , 2 females ; occurrenceID: DDB2D9E4-0D27-5CC5-B2B4-E865BE2B259E ; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria ; county: Imperia ; municipality: San Biagio della Cima ; verbatimElevation: 122 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8225; verbatimLongitude: 7.655; Identification : identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba ; Event : eventDate: 2020-05-09 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC, MIB:ZPL Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 2 males ; occurrenceID: 935A4ADC-DFC5-520F-A815-4B6C2B61EA32 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.7877; verbatimLongitude: 7.6288; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-27 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: 1DE28E30-89F1-5421-BCBD-C78BADC2B9DD ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Camporosso; verbatimElevation: 32 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8308; verbatimLongitude: 7.6318; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-28 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Notes P. stigmaticorne was previously known in Italy only from Sicilia, Sardegna and Puglia ( Litman et al. 2021 ). We sequenced two specimens from Liguria and one from Lazio, the resulting sequences matching reference sequences between 100% and 99.82% (mean 99.58%). The neighbour-joining tree unequivocally confirms the identifications.