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
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Andrena
(
Andrena
)
synadelpha
Perkins, 1914
Distribution:
Northern and central Europe, with a scattered southern distribution into
Spain
and
Turkey
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
).
New data:
PORTUGAL
:
Trás-os-Montes
,
Paradela
,
1 km
south, M308-4,
12.v.2019
,
1♀
;
Minho
,
Serra do Gerês
,
Cascata de Leonte
,
13.v.2019
,
1♂
;
Minho
,
Estorãos
,
Parque de Merendas do Passadouro
,
14.v.2019
,
1♀
;
Min- ho,
Castro Laboreiro
,
15.v.2019
,
1♀
, all det. & leg. Wood.
Notes.
Found frequently in wooded areas in northern
Portugal
, this species has clearly been previously overlooked, perhaps due to its association with broadleaf woodland where it is known to forage extensively from woody plants such as
Acer
,
Rubus
,
Crataegus
,
Quercus
,
Rhamnus
,
Frangula
and
Ilex
(
Wood and Roberts 2017
)
. In
Portugal
, this habitat
type
is found only in the north of the country.