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
916
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https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2381/10463
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2023.916.2381
2118-9773
10453460
0DC587F6-9DAA-4F6E-BA2A-AD528990BA24
Subgenus
Taeniandrena
Hedicke, 1933
Taeniandrena
have recently been revised by
Praz
et al
. (2022
; predominantly in Europe), with further Iberian revisions (e.g.,
Wood
et al
. 2021
;
Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez 2022
;
Wood 2023
). This subgenus contains a large number of cryptic taxa that defy morphological recognition, and may represent an example of explosive adaptive radiation due to their pattern of sometimes extreme local endemism. An analysis of North African
Taeniandrena
material produced several unexpected results.