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
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1175-5326
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Halictus
(
Seladonia
)
submediterraneus
Pauly, 2015
Distribution:
Europe to
Turkey
and
Iran
(
Pauly
et al
. 2015
).
New data:
PORTUGAL
:
Porto
,
Leca
de Palmeira
,
3.viii.1962
,
1♂
, leg.
J. Abraham
&
L. Horacsek
(
BMNH
;
Pauly
et al
. 2015
); Sesimbra, Santana,
Estr. Fonte de Carvalho
,
3.viii.2019
,
1♂
, det. & leg.
Wood.
Notes:
Pauly
et al
. (2015)
separated
H. submediterraneus
from
H. smaragdulus
s.s.
(Vachal, 1895) on genetic and morphological differences, most clearly in the male genitalia.
Halictus submediterraneus
was not listed in
Baldock
et al
. (2018)
due to uncertainty about how to separate the two taxa. Both species occur in
Portugal
, but their relative frequency and full distributions are currently unknown as females are morphologically inseparable. In
Portugal
, confirmed males are currently known only from the west coast.