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 text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-13 5185 1 1 109 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1 journal article 173358 10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1 500935fc-fd0d-4cd1-b994-390f35fddadb 1175-5326 7073826 D34A7F04-8EAD-4441-A859-CFD79F7740D2 Andrena ( Aenandrena ) chaetogastra Pittioni, 1950 ( Fig. 254 ) Distribution: Cyprus . Material examined: PARATYPE : CYPRUS : Troodos , 16-22.vi.1939 , H. Lindberg ( 1♀ ) ( NHMUK ); ( A. bisulcata Morawitz ) : ISRAEL : Alonim , 26.iv.1943 , H. Bytinski-Salz ( 1♀ ) ; Dovrat , 18.iv.1970 , H. Bytinski-Salz ( 1♀ ) ; Haifa , 22.iv.1973 , A. Freidberg ( 1♀ ) ; Jerusalem , Rehavia West , 27.iv.1945 , on Astomaea seselifolia ( 1♀ ) ( SMNHTAU ) . Remarks. Material cited by Warncke (1969) from Israel was reidentified as A. bisulcata Morawitz , and so A. chaetogastra is removed from the Israeli list and confirmed as endemic to the Troodos mountains in central Cyprus . In direct comparison, the depressed tergal marginal zones in A. chaetogastra occupy a noticeably greater proportion of the visible surface, on tergum 4 occupying almost the entire area ( Fig. 254 ). The hind tibiae and all the tarsi are also orange, whereas in A. bisulcata they are black.