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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Sphecodes rubripes
Spinola, 1839
Distribution:
South-west Europe, North Africa,
Cyprus
, and the Near East (
Astafurova
et al
. 2019
).
Notes:
Warncke (1992)
considered
S. rubripes
to be a subspecies of
Sphecodes albilabris
(Fabricius, 1793)
. However, it has several morphological and ecological differences (
Bogusch & Straka 2012
;
Cross 2017
;
Astafurova
et al
. 2019
) and should be considered a valid species (
Bogusch & Straka 2014
). In
Portugal
,
S. rubripes
is known only from the Algarve where it is a parasite of
Eucera nigrilabris
Lepeletier, 1841 (
Cross 2017
)
, whereas
S. albilabris
sensu stricto
is found throughout the country.