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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Andrena
(
Leucandrena
)
barbilabris
(Kirby, 1802)
Distribution:
Europe to North America, with scattered European populations south to
Spain
,
Italy
, and
Greece
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
).
New data:
PORTUGAL
:
Algarve
,
Carrapateira
,
7.iii.2015
,
3♂
,
3♀
, det.
Wood
, leg.
Cross
(previously reported in
Baldock
et al
. (2018)
as
Andrena leptopyga
Pérez
);
Algarve
,
Praia
da Bordeira
,
14.iii.2019
,
1♀
, det.
Wood
, leg.
A. Soares
, P. Garcia Pereira,
R
.
Félix, F
. Barros
.
Notes:
This taxon is known from northern
Spain
, and so its presence was considered unlikely in southwestern
Portugal
, and the material from 2015 was confused with
A. leptopyga
which is present elsewhere in
Portugal
. The true presence of
A. barbilabris
in
Portugal
solves two mysteries, namely the presence of
Sphecodes pellucidus
Smith, 1845
and
Nomada alboguttata
Herrich-Schäffer, 1839
, both of which are brood parasites strongly, if not obligately, associated with
A. barbilabris
(
Bogusch & Straka 2012
;
Smit 2018
). The presence of this seemingly isolated population in the Algarve is surprising, but as
N. alboguttata
has been reported from the
Setúbal
peninsula (
Baldock
et al
. 2018
),
A. barbilabris
is probably more widespread in
Portugal
but under-recorded due to its early flight period.