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
3889396
F10A4BCE-899A-4EED-9211-343BB3E2BEB8
Epeolus cruciger
(Panzer, 1799)
Distribution:
Throughout Europe (
Bogusch & Hadrava 2018
).
New data:
PORTUGAL
:
Algarve
,
Aljezur
,
Medo
da Pipa
,
30.ix.2018
,
1♂
, det. & leg.
Cross.
Notes:
Epeolus cruciger
is probably a complex of species or races, with at least one
race attacking
Colletes succinctus
(L.) and one
race attacking
Colletes marginatus
Smith (
Bogusch & Hadrava 2018
)
. Frustratingly, both taxa were present at the Portuguese site, making identification of the host challenging, though the presence of a male at this late date might suggest
C. succinctus
.