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 Epeolus productulus Bischoff, 1930 Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 7 males , 12 females ; occurrenceID: 9283AF56-A9B6-5570-8A8A-7E98D2E81481 ; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Roma; municipality: Manziana; locality: Bosco Macchia Grande; verbatimElevation: 330-370 m ; verbatimLatitude: 42.1233; verbatimLongitude: 12.1147; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis, vid. R. Le Divelec; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-01 ; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Notes Found resting on grass and flowers at sunset, together with Colletes mlokossewiczi . Prior to our find, E. productulus was documented in Italy from Valle d'Aosta ( Amiet et al. 2007 ), Piemonte ( Schwarz et al. 1999 , Bogusch and Hadrava 2018 ) and Emilia-Romagna ( Bogusch and Hadrava 2018 ). We sequenced one male and one female and the resulting sequences seem to be the first for E. productulus . The nearest species for which sequences are deposited in BOLD is Epeolus variegatus (average match 96.89%, range 97.99%-92.56%).