Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant
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Pisanty, Gideon
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Scheuchl, Erwin
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Martin, Teresa
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Cardinal, Sophie
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Wood, Thomas James
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-09-13
5185
1
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1
journal article
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Andrena
(
Truncandrena
)
ochraceohirta
Alfken, 1935
sp. resurr.
(
Fig. 180
)
Andrena ochraceohirta
Alfken, 1935
Andrena oulskii ochraceohirta
:
Warncke 1967
,
1969
Andrena minapalumboi
Gribodo, 1894
:
Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002
Distribution:
Israel
,
Jordan
,
Syria
,
West Bank
.
Flight period:
February–May.
Flower records:
Apiaceae
:
Ferula communis
;
Asteraceae
:
Calendula
spp.
,
Silybum marianum
,
Urospermum picroides
;
Brassicaceae
:
Hirschfeldia icana
,
Isatis lusitanica
,
Ochtodium aegyptiacum
,
Rapistrum rugosum
,
Sinapis alba
,
Sinapis arvensis
;
Fabaceae
:
Lens orientalis
.
Material examined:
HOLOTYPE
:
WEST BANK
[Palästina]:
Jericho
,
20–28.iv.1927
,
Dr.Enslin
(
♀
) (
ZMHB
)
;
PARATYPE
:
WEST BANK
:
Nablus
,
19–26.iv.1934
,
Dr.Enslin
(
1♂
) (
ZMHB
)
;
non-type material:
ISRAEL
:
Banias
[Banyas],
12.v.1971
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
Beit Guvrin
[Beit Govrin],
28.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
on
Brassicaceae
(
1♀
)
;
Beit Nir
,
11.iii.2018
,
T. Roth
,
pan trap
(
1♀
)
;
Beit Nir
,
2 km
NW,
31.658ºN
34.855ºE
,
5.iv.2015
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
)
;
Binyamina
[Benjamina], 7.iv.19??,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
Canada Park
,
31.836ºN
35.000ºE
,
18.iii.2016
,
G. Pisanty
(
4♀
)
;
Degania
[Deganiah],
18.iii.1941
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♂
)
;
Degania Alef
[
Deganya A
],
5.iv.1942
,
Y. Palmoni
(
1♂
)
;
Dvir
[Devira],
12.iv.2009
,
L. Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
Ein Hemed
[Aquabella],
15.iii.1969
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
3♀
)
; ‘
En Tina Nature Reserve
,
77 m
,
33.084ºN
35.642ºE
,
24.iii.2019
, A.
Dorchin
,
T. Roth
&
A. Sviri
(
1♀
)
;
Gal’on
,
23.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
on
Rapistrum rugosum
(
1♀
)
and from pan traps (
5♀
,
1♂
);
4.iv.2018
, T. Roth, on
Hirschfeldia incana
(
3♀
),
Isatis lusitanica
(
3♀
,
1♂
) and
Silybum marianum
(
2♀
,
1♂
);
Gilat Forest
,
31.35°N
34.66°E
,
2.iii.2022
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
1♀
)
;
Gilat Research Center
,
31.3372°N
34.663°E
,
2.iii.2022
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
2♂
)
;
500 m
NNE,
31.3405°N
34.670°E
,
2.iii.2022
, G. Pisanty, sweeping (
4♀
);
Horbat Kefar Lakhish
,
220 m
,
31.575°N
34.8532°E
,
5.iii.2021
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
2♂
)
;
Horbat Kefar Lakhish
,
220 m
,
31.5750°N
34.8530°E
,
15.iii.2021
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan traps
(
1♀
,
2♂
)
;
Jerusalem
,
27.ii.1940
, H.
Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
7.iii.1940
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
4♀
);
15.iii.1940
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
1♂
);
28.iii.1940
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
1♀
);
12.iii.1941
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
1♂
);
Jerusalem
,
Mt. Scopus
,
15.iii.1946
,
on
Calendula
(
1♀
,
1♂
)
and
Sinapis
(
2♀
);
Jerusalem
,
Rehavia West
,
27.iv.1945
,
on
Sinapis
(
1♀
)
;
Jerusalem
env.,
28.iii.1988
, R.
Leys
(
3♀
)
;
Jerusalem
[
Yerushalayim
],
7.ii.2015
, T.
Jumah
(
1♀
)
;
Kfar Menahem
[Kefar Menahem],
2.iii.2008
,
Y. Mandelik
,
on
Brassicaceae
(
1♂
)
;
Kvutzat Kinneret
[Kinneret],
9.iv.1942
,
Y. Palmoni
(
1♀
)
;
Lakhish
,
3 km
NE,
31.575ºN
34.870ºE
,
11.iii.2016
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
1♀
)
;
Lakhish
,
3 km
NE,
31.578ºN
34.870ºE
,
26.ii.2016
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♂
)
;
Lakhish
,
3 km
NE,
31.579ºN
34.871ºE
,
4.iii.2016
, G.
Pisanty
,
on
Sinapis
(
8♀
,
2♂
)
;
11.iii.2016
, G. Pisanty, on
Sinapis
(
1♀
,
1♂
);
Ma’agar Yeroham
[Kfar-Yerukham Reservoir],
21.iii.1971
,
Galil
(
1♀
)
;
Malkia
[Malkiyya],
13.iv.2014
,
O. Winberger
(
1♀
)
;
Merom Golan
,
3.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
)
;
Mikveh Israel
[Mikwe Israel], 10.iii.19??,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
Moradot HaGolan Nature Reserve
,
Nahal Neshef
,
184 m
,
33.094ºN
35.650ºE
,
24.iv.2019
, A.
Dorchin
,
T. Roth
&
O. Halbershtat
(
1♀
)
;
Mount Gilboa
[Gilboa],
17.iii.1978
,
D. Simon
(
1♂
)
;
[
Hare Gilboa
,
Har Ahino’am
],
450 m
,
32º27.7’N
35º24.8’E
,
11.iv.2011
,
L. Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
450 m
,
32º28’N
35º25’E
,
20.iii.2012
, L. Friedman (
1♀
);
Nahal Dishon
,
1.iv.1991
,
R. Kasher
, partly
on
Ochtodium aegyptiacum
(
3♀
,
3♂
)
;?
Nahal Heq
[
Cheik W.
],
20.iv.1985
,
E. Shney-Dor
(
1♀
)
;
Nahal Maresha
,
220 m
,
31.5773°N
34.8576°E
,
15.iii.2021
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
3♀
,
2♂
)
;
Nahal Me’arot
,
8.iv.1988
,
I. Yarom
(
3♀
)
;
Nahal Poleg
[Birquat Ramadan],
13.iv.1940
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
1♂
)
;
Nahal Sa’ar
,
18.iv.1992
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
)
;
Nahal Shemarya
,
31.341°N
34.6568°E
,
2.iii.2022
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
1♂
)
;
31.3412°N
34.657°E
,
2.iii.2022
, M. Ben-Yosef, sweeping (
1♀
);
Nahshon
,
26.iii.2018
,
T. Roth
,
on
Sinapis alba
(
1♀
)
;
Nahshon Junction
,
9.iii.2017
,
T. Roth
(
1♂
)
;
Netiv HaLamed-Heh
[Netiv Halamed He],
27.iii.2017
,
T. Roth
(
1♀
,
1♂
)
;
Neve Shalom
,
20.ii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan trap
(
1♀
)
;
Nurit
,
120 m
,
32º32’N
35º21’E
,
11.iv.2011
,
L. Friedman
(
1♂
)
;
Park Rosh Ha’Ayin
,
16.iv.1993
,
A. Freidberg
&
F. Kaplan
(
1♂
)
;
Pura Nature Reserve
,
31.496ºN
34.778ºE
,
27.iii.2015
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
)
;
200 m
,
31º29.659’N
34º46.755’E
,
18.iii.2010
, A. Freidberg (
1♀
);
Ramat HaNadiv
[Hasharon, Zikhron Ya’aqov, Ramas Hanadiv],
12.iii.1990
,
R. Leys
(
1♀
,
2♂
)
;
Ramla
,
30.iv.1973
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
2♀
)
;
[
Ramleh
],
3.iii.1971
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
2♂
)
;
24.iii.1971
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
9♂
);
Revadim
,
15.iii.2018
,
T. Roth
,
on
Sinapis alba
(
1♀
)
and
Urospermum picroides
(
1♂
);
27.iii.2018
, T. Roth, on
Ferula communis
(
1♀
);
Road
869,
1.85 km
E Ma’ale Gamla
,
32.895ºN
35.708ºE
,
130 m
,
11.iv.2019
, A.
Dorchin
,
O. Halbershtat
&
Y. Mersman
(
2♀
)
;
Road
869,
2.12 km
NE Ma’ale Gamla Junction
, –
51 m
,
32.895ºN
35.676ºE
,
11.iv.2019
, A.
Dorchin
,
O. Halbershtat
&
Y. Mersman
(
1♂
)
;
Sha’alvim
,
25.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♂
)
;
Sha’alvim
,
2 km
SSE,
31.8475ºN
34.995ºE
,
18.iii.2016
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♂
)
;
Shoham
,
12.iii.2010
,
T. Cohen
(
1♂
)
;
Tal Shahar
,
2.iv.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
on
Sinapis alba
(
1♂
)
;
20.iii.2017
, T. Roth (
1♂
);
Tel Aviv
,
28.iii.1970
, H.
Bytinski-Salz
(
1♀
)
;
30.iii.1970
, H. Bytinski-Salz (
3♀
);
Tel Aviv
N.,
27.iii.1973
, H.
Bytinski-Salz
(
2♀
)
;
Tel Hadid
,
11.iv.1987
,
E. Shney-Dor
(
1♀
)
;
Tel Hadid
,
31.968ºN
34.95ºE
,
20.iii.2015
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
,
4♂
)
;
Tel Qeriyyot
,
31.342ºN
35.125ºE
,
27.iii.2015
,
G. Pisanty
(
2♀
)
;
Tel Qeshet
,
163 m
,
31º32.491’N
34º45.841’E
,
18.iii.2010
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♀
)
;
Zomet Goral
,
363 m
,
31º18.299’N
34º48.446’E
,
18.iii.2010
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♀
)
;
Zomet Lehavim
,
27.iii.1991
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♂
)
;
JORDAN
:
30 km
NW
Ajloun
[
Aljun
],
600 m
,
29.iv.2006
, K.
Deneš
(
2♀
)
;
20 km
N
Amman
,
620 m
,
23.iv.2006
, K.
Deneš
(
1♀
)
;
20 km
NW of
Amman
,
420 m
,
5.v.2006
, K.
Deneš
(
1♀
)
;
30 km
N At-Tafilah
[
Tafila
],
2.v.1996
,
Ma. Halada
(
1♀
)
;
Irbid
,
Saham
vill,
19–25.iv.2003
,
I. Pljushtch
(
9♀
,
3♂
)
;
S of
Irbid
,
13.iv.2009
, M.
Snižek
(
1♂
)
;
20 km
N of
Karak
,
1000 m
,
27.iv.2006
, K.
Deneš
(
3♀
)
;
15 km
W
Madaba
,
760 m
,
27.iv.2006
, K.
Deneš
(
4♀
)
;
North Shuna
env.,
30.iv.1996
,
Mi. Halada
(
1♀
)
;
20 km
S of North Shuna
,
Tall Al Arbatin
,
19.iv.1996
,
Ma. Halada
(
1♀
)
;
SYRIA
:
Apamea
,
29.iv.1995
,
K. Deneš
sen. (
1♀
)
;
Faouar
, [
2001-04-03
],
J. Plass.
(
1♂
)
;
WEST BANK
:
Bet Me’kr
,
18 km
E Jerusalem
,
25.iii.1990
, T.
Boker
, on
Lens
orientalis
(
1♂
)
;
Elon More
, ‘
En Kefir
,
530 m
,
17.iii.2015
,
L. Friedman
(
1♂
)
;
Har Brakha
[Berakha], 1 kmS, ‘
Amassa Spring
,
595 m
,
6.iii.2015
,
L. Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
2 km
S,
Nabi Isma’il Terebinth Nature Reserve
,
620 m
,
6.iii.2015
, L.
Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
Har Gilo
,
17.iv.1991
,
R. Kasher
,
Sweeping
(
1♀
)
;
Har Kabbir
,
700 m
,
17.iii.2015
,
L. Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
Jericho
,
8.iii.1976
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♂
)
;
Kedumim
[Qedumim],
1 km
SW,
Mizpe
‘
Ami
,
390 m
,
13.iii.2015
,
L. Friedman
(
2♀
)
;
Ma’ale
Adumim [Ma’ale ‘Adummim], 24/26?.
ii.1979
,
M. Kaplan
(
1♀
)
;
Nahal Qana
,
Ein-el-Juze
,
11.iii.2016
,
L. Friedman
(
1♀
)
;
Ubeidiya
,
6.iv.2014
,
I. Arar
(
1♀
)
;
Za’atara
,
7.iv.2014
,
I. Arar
,
on
Sinapis arvensis
(
1♀
)
;
14.iv.2014
, I.
Arar
,
on
Hirschfeldia incana
(
1♀
) (
ES
,
OLML
,
RMNH
,
SMNHTAU
)
.
Remarks.
Andrena ochraceohirta
can be immediately separated from
A. minapalumboi
by its light-coloured terminal fringe (
Fig. 180
); in
A. minapalumboi
it is black, and the overall pubescence of the bee is much darker. In this regard,
A. ochraceohirta
is much closer to
A. oulskii
and
A. noacki
sp. resurr.
(
Figs. 179, 181
), so it is completely unclear why Warncke synonymised it with
A. minapalumboi
. The light terminal fringe also allows separation from
A. combusta
Morawitz
, which has a dark terminal fringe.
Andrena oulskii
can be separated by its red-marked terga (
Fig. 181
), and
A. noacki
can be separated because it has complete hair bands on terga 1–4 (
Fig. 179
), whereas in
A. ochraceohirta
the hair bands on terga 1–2 are always very broadly interrupted (
Fig. 180
) (see also remarks under
A. noacki
).