Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant
Author
Pisanty, Gideon
0000-0003-2076-430X
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Author
Scheuchl, Erwin
0000-0001-7500-2316
erwin.scheuchl@t-online.de
Author
Martin, Teresa
0000-0003-4433-0477
teresa.martin@agr.gc.ca
Author
Cardinal, Sophie
0000-0002-5674-5891
sophie.cardinal@agr.gc.ca
Author
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
(
Poecilandrena
)
semirubra
Morawitz, 1876
Distribution:
Armenia
,
Azerbaijan
, Crimea,
Georgia
, southern part of European
Russia
,
Turkey
.
Material examined (
A. veronicae
sp. nov.
):
ISRAEL
:
Mount Hermon
[Hermon],
1650 m
,
20.iv.1969
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
6♂
) (
OLML
,
SMNHTAU
)
.
Remarks.
Israeli male specimens identified as
A
.
semirubra
(
Warncke 1969
;
Pisanty
et al
. 2018
) actually belong to the newly described
A
.
veronicae
sp. nov.
This confusion has arisen due to the rarity of
A. veronicae
material in collections and the absence of females, which are radically different from those of
A. semirubra
.