Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant
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Pisanty, Gideon
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Scheuchl, Erwin
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Author
Martin, Teresa
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Cardinal, Sophie
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Wood, Thomas James
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-09-13
5185
1
1
109
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1
journal article
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Andrena
(
Melandrena
)
grandilabris
Pérez, 1903
Distribution:
Turkey
.
Material examined (
A. elmaria
Gusenleitner
):
ISRAEL
:
Eilon
[Elon],
27.iii.1946
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
Jerusalem
,
27.ii.1940
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
5.iii.1940
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
1♂
);?
Jerusalem
[
Jer
],
27.ii.1940
(
1♂
)
;
Kiryat Anavim
[Qiryat ‘Anawim],
5.iii.1937
,
on
Sinapis
(
1♂
) (
SMNHTAU
)
.
Remarks.
Israeli specimens identified by Warncke as
A
.
grandilabris
(
Warncke 1969
)
actually belong to the related
A
.
elmaria
Gusenleitner
, which is common in
Israel
.A similar situation may exist with the record of
A. grandilabris
from
Cyprus
(
Varnava
et al.
2020
), which remains to be confirmed.