Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant
Author
Pisanty, Gideon
0000-0003-2076-430X
gidpisa79@yahoo.com
Author
Scheuchl, Erwin
0000-0001-7500-2316
erwin.scheuchl@t-online.de
Author
Martin, Teresa
0000-0003-4433-0477
teresa.martin@agr.gc.ca
Author
Cardinal, Sophie
0000-0002-5674-5891
sophie.cardinal@agr.gc.ca
Author
Wood, Thomas James
0000-0003-2076-430X
gidpisa79@yahoo.com
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-09-13
5185
1
1
109
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1
journal article
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Andrena
(
Micrandrena
)
decollata
Warncke, 1974
Distribution:
Mediterraean coastline of
Algeria
, Lybia and
Tunisia
(
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
); newly recorded from the coastal plain of
Israel
.
Flight period:
January–April.
Flower records:
Brassicaceae
;
Boraginaceae
:
Alkanna strigosa
.
Material examined:
ISRAEL
:
Binyamina
,
26.i.1976
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♂
)
;
Gan Sorek
[Gan Soreq],
Give’at Humera
,
4.ii.2020
,
L. Friedman
(
1♂
)
;
Gvulot
[Gevulot],
14.iii.1987
,
E. Shney-Dor
(
1♀
)
;
Holon
[Hulon],
18.i.1954
,
L. Fishelsohn
(
1♂
)
;
Kadima
[Qadima],
5.iii.1990
,
R. Kasher
,
on
Alkanna strigosa
(
1♀
)
;
6.iv.2015
, I. Eliakim (
1♂
);
Mikveh Israel
[Mikve Israel],
5.iii.1946
(
1♀
)
;
Nahal Alexander
,
27.ii.2020
,
K. Levy
,
pan trap
(
4♀
)
;
16.iii.2020
, K. Levy, pan trap (
2♀
);
Nitzanim
[Nizzanim],
17.ii.2005
,
A. Freidberg
(
3♂
)
;
Nizzanim Nature Reserve
,
25.ii.2009
, A.
Freidberg
(
2♂
)
and L. Friedman (
1♀
,
2♂
);
Rehovot
,
ii.1934
,
Hecht
(
3♀
,
1♂
)
;
9.ii.1942
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
3♀
);
[
R.Gh
] (possibly
Ramat Gan
or
Ramat Chen
),
3.ii.1940
(
1♀
)
;
6.ii.1940
(
1♀
);
Tel Aviv
,
17.iii.1940
, H.
Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;?.
iii.1940
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
1♂
);
Tel Aviv
,
Ramat Aviv
,
32.130°N
34.801°E
,
9.ii.2015
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan traps
(
2♀
,
2♂
)
;
1.iv.2017
, G. Pisanty, partly on
Brassicaceae
(
2♂
);
Zur Moshe
,
27.iv.2015
,
I. Eliakim
(
1♀
,
1♂
)
;
TUNISIA:
Hammamet
env.,
15.iii.1996
,
K. Deneš
(
2♀
) (
OLML
,
RMNH
,
SMNHTAU
,
TJW
)
.
Remarks.
Israeli specimens of
A. decollata
were erroneously identified by Warncke as
A. longibarbis
Pérez (
Warncke 1969
)
.
Pisanty
et al.
(2018)
considered them a distinct, undescribed species related to
A. decollata
. However, upon examination of more material, we see no reason to separate them from the north African material of
A. decollata
.