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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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
(
Brachyandrena
)
miegiella
Dours, 1873
Distribution:
West Mediterranean:
Algeria
,
France
,
Italy
,
Malta
,
Morocco
,
Portugal
,
Spain
,
Tunisia
; a single Eastern Mediterranean locality is indicated from the Nile delta in
Egypt
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
).
Grace (2010)
mentions this species from Lesbos,
Greece
, without a reference or specimen data.
Remarks.
This species was reported from
Israel
without specimen data (
Bodenheimer 1937
, as
A. tingitana
PĂ©rez
;
Warncke 1969
, citing Bodenheimer). We have not seen any specimens or confirmed records from
Israel
or elsewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Brachyandrena
are difficult to identify, and any unconfirmed records outside the main distributional range should be treated with caution. Unfortunately,
Ariana
et al.
(2009)
who revised this subgenus, did not indicate or discuss the exact distribution of
A. miegiella
.