Updates to the bee fauna of Portugal with the description of three new Iberian Andrena species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Author
Wood, Thomas James
Laboratoire de Zoologie, Université de Mons, 7000, Mons, Belgium.
Author
Cross, Ian
16 Briantspuddle, Dorchester, Dorset, DT 2 7 HS, United Kingdom.
Author
Baldock, David W.
Nightingales, Haslemere Road, Milford, Surrey, GU 8 5 BN, United Kingdom.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-11
4790
2
201
228
journal article
21708
10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.1
312733bb-486b-4f4c-b8b3-260aea3285a9
1175-5326
3889396
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Andrena
(
Micrandrena
)
abjecta
Pérez, 1895
Distribution:
Morocco
,
Algeria
, and
Spain
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
).
Discussion:
Andrena abjecta
was reported to occur in
Portugal
by
Baldock
et al
. (2018)
on the basis of a single specimen. Examination of material from North Africa shows that the original Portuguese record is
Andrena tenuistriata
Pérez, 1895
as the fovea are too wide and the base of the propodeal triangle is too extensively wrinkled and lacks the necessary granular microsculpture.
Andrena abjecta
could occur in
Portugal
with records known from the neighbouring Huelva province in
Spain
(
Dardon
et al
. 2014
) but for now its presence must remain unconfirmed.
Material examined:
Andrena abjecta
:
ALGERIA
:
Oran
, (no date),
1♀
,
OÖLM
(
paratype
)
;
MOROCCO
:
Tizin-Fedrhate
,
60 km
NE,
Quarzazate
,
1370 m
,
6
o
40’N
31
o
06’W
,
11.iv.1996
,
1♀
, leg.
M. Schwarz
, M. Schwarz Colln.