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 Rhodanthidium sticticum (Fabricius, 1787) Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: B27F2E49-D719-5EBC-A604-331B06697EC0 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; locality: Monte Grammondo; verbatimElevation: 650 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8434; verbatimLongitude: 7.5294; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino; Event: eventDate: 2021-05-07 ; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino ; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: 154D4860-271A-5B95-9143-28B50E472139 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; locality: Colla di Bevera ; verbatimElevation: 435 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8294; verbatimLongitude: 7.5671; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino ; Event: eventDate: 2020-06-18 ; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 female ; occurrenceID: 7500E0C6-A7D9-5933-BE7A-6B72EC4C9D32 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Perinaldo; verbatimElevation: 484 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8666; verbatimLongitude: 7.6624; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2018-04-08 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Sirio Gamba ; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: D107ECA6-41F7- 5AD 3-BDC3-95927C3D4BD6 ; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria ; county: Imperia ; municipality: San Biagio della Cima ; verbatimElevation: 338 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8063; verbatimLongitude: 7.6419; Identification : identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba ; Event : eventDate: 2019-04-14 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence : recordedBy: Sirio Gamba ; sex: 1 male ; occurrenceID: 7C5903A4-0DA2-51E5-9A90-6A6ADDD85852 ; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria ; county: Imperia ; municipality: San Biagio della Cima ; verbatimElevation: 88 m ; verbatimLatitude: 43.8219; verbatimLongitude: 7.6538; Identification : identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba ; Event : eventDate: 2022-03-28 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Simone Flaminio; sex: 2 males , 1 female ; occurrenceID: FFF779B6-70E9-5EDD-87CE-341A75BFC37C ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Calabria; county: Crotone; municipality: Cutro; verbatimLatitude: 38.9397; verbatimLongitude: 16.9622; Identification: identifiedBy: Simone Flaminio; Event: eventDate: 2022-04-21 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SFC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Simone Flaminio; sex: 3 males ; occurrenceID: 64C742CF-EED6-5E56-8E29-30752A8E092E ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Calabria; county: Crotone; municipality: Crotone; verbatimLatitude: 39.0105; verbatimLongitude: 17.1783; Identification: identifiedBy: Simone Flaminio; Event: eventDate: 2022-04-21 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SFC Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Simone Flaminio; sex: 3 males , 1 female ; occurrenceID: 66A5FADC-AE56-5C87-8783-68F0EB20DFEC ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Calabria; county: Reggio Calabria; municipality: Caulonia; verbatimLatitude: 38.338; verbatimLongitude: 16.4605; Identification: identifiedBy: Simone Flaminio; Event: eventDate: 2022-04-23 ; Record Level: collectionCode: SFC Notes In Italy, R. sticticum was formerly reported only from Sicilia and Sardegna ( Kasparek 2019 , Comba 2019 ); our records extend its range to continental Italy (Fig. 1 A). It is common in the extreme west of Liguria, where it occurs in warm dry places from the French border east at least to Bordighera.