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
F10A4BCE-899A-4EED-9211-343BB3E2BEB8
Afranthidium
(
Mesanthidium
)
carduele
(Morawitz, 1876)
malacopygum
(Gribodo, 1894)
Distribution:
Afranthidium carduele
is distributed in
Spain
and North Africa to
Greece
,
Bulgaria
,
Turkey
, the Caucasus, and the Middle East (
Aguib
et al
. 2010
). The subspecies
malacopygum
is found in
Iberia
,
Morocco
, and
Algeria
, and
carduele
s.s.
is found in the eastern part of the range.
New data:
PORTUGAL
:
Trás-os-Montes
,
Bragança
,
França
,
25.vii.2018
,
1♀
, det.
G. Le Goff
, leg.
R
.
Andrade
.
Notes:
The status of subspecies
malacopygum
may need to be revised in the future given the non-overlapping West Mediterranean distribution compared to the easterly distribution of the subspecies
carduele
s.s.