New Old World Andrena species, with a focus on Turkey (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)
Author
Wood, Thomas James
0000-0001-5653-224X
thomasjames.wood@umons.ac.be
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-04-18
5266
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5266.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5266.1.1
1175-5326
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Andrena
(
Hoplandrena
)
rosae
Panzer, 1801
Andrena
(
Hoplandrena
)
schoenitzeri
Gusenleitner, 1998
syn. nov.
Remarks.
Gusenleitner (1998)
described
A. schoenitzeri
(type photographs available at https://www.zobodat.at/ belege.php) from eastern
Turkey
and
Azerbaijan
and diagnosed it against
A. clusia
and
A. mordax
due to its dark pubescence. However, this overlooks dark individuals of
A. rosae
. Structurally, there are no differences between the two taxa, with females displaying the same medially shining propodeal triangle, terga with at most short and scattered hairs, and densely punctate clypeus, with males sharing the same quadrate A3 (slightly shorter than broad, at most one quarter the length of A4), apically truncate S8 (not medially emarginate), and simple genital capsule.
Andrena rosae
is an extremely widespread species, but shows substantial colour variation across this range for both the terga and pubescence. In the Eastern Palaearctic for example, it shows the presence of white apical tergal hairbands (
ssp.
alfkeni
Friese, 1914
, e.g.
Xu & Tadauchi 2005
). In
Turkey
, the species is absent from the western part of the country (see map in
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
), but reappears in the east where individuals are almost entirely black, though individuals with very dark red discs of T2 can be found, as is the case for one of the
paratypes
of
A. schoenitzeri
. These black individuals can be found from eastern
Turkey
, through the Caucasus and
Iran
to some parts of Central Asia where the more typical red form also occurs.
Distribution.
Palaearctic, from
Iberia
to
Japan
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
).
Material examined.
AZERBAIJAN
:
Elisabethpol
[
Ganja
],
1♀
,
OÖLM
(
paratype
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
TURKEY
:
Hakkâri
,
Şivelan
,
18.v.1975
,
1♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratype
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
Hakkari
,
Suvari Halil-Pass
,
2300 m
,
14.vi.1981
, 1♁,
3♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
&
M. Kraus
,
OÖLM
(
paratypes
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
Hakkari
,
Suvari Halil-Pass
,
2500 m
,
2.vi.1980
,
2♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratypes
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
Kars
,
20 km
W Karakurt
,
1600 m
,
27.v.1980
,
1♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratype
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
Kars
,
20 km
W Sarikamis
[
Sarıkamış
],
2100 m
,
26.v.1980
,
1♀
, leg
M. Schwarz
(
holotype
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
;
Kars
,
20 km
W Sarikamis
[
Sarıkamış
],
2100 m
, 4♁,
1♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratypes
of
A. schoenitzeri
);
Pass W
Hakkari
,
Altin Daglari
[Khrebet Altyn],
2600–3000 m
,
13.viii.1979
,
1♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratype
of
A. schoenitzeri
);
W Sarikamis
[Sarıkamış]
/
Kars
,
30–31.v.1977
, 1♁,
3♀
, leg.
K. Warncke
,
OÖLM
(
paratypes
of
A. schoenitzeri
)
.