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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Author
Scheuchl, Erwin
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Author
Martin, Teresa
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teresa.martin@agr.gc.ca
Author
Cardinal, Sophie
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sophie.cardinal@agr.gc.ca
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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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10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1
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Andrena
(
Chlorandrena
)
tadauchii
Gusenleitner, 1998
Andrena edentula
Wood, 2020
syn. nov.
Distribution:
Israel
,
Syria
,
Turkey
,
West Bank
. Likely present also in
Lebanon
.
Flight period:
February–May.
Flower records:
Asteraceae
:
Crepis aspera
,
Glebionis coronaria
,
Picris
spp.
,
Rhagadiolus stellatus
;
Brassicaceae
:
Sinapis arvensis
.
Material examined:
HOLOTYPE
(
A. edentula
):
SYRIA
:
occ.
Al-Nasrah
[An Nasrah] env.,
8.iv.2005
,
J. Saki
(
♂
) (
OLML
);
non-type material:
ISRAEL
:
Aderet
,
24.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan trap
(
1♀
);
Banias
,
18.iv.1992
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
); [
Panyas],
430 m
,
15.iii.2011
,
33°14.850’N
35°41.674’E
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♂
);
Beit Guvrin [Beit Govrin],
28.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan traps
(
4♀
); [
Bet-Govrin,
20 km
S Hebron
],
17.iii.1990
,
R. Kasher
(
1♂
);
Beit Nir,
28.iii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan traps
(
2♀
);
25.iii.2018
,
T. Roth
,
on
Picris
(
1♀
);
Beit Oren [Bet Oren],
1.5 km
S,
18.iv.2015
, 32.715 35.01,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
);
Giv’at Gad [Sheich-Ali,
20 km
E Qiryat-Gat
],
17.iii.1990
,
R. Kasher
(
1♂
); Haifa University,
10.iv.1988
,
I. Yarom
(
1♀
,
1♂
);
Har Gilo,
11.iv.1990
,
R. Kasher
(
1♂
);
Holot Nizzanim Nature Reserve
, Nahal Evtah,
25.ii.2009
,
A. Freidberg
(
1♂
);
Horbat Sheqofa,
252 m
,
15.iii.2021
,
31.5775°N
34.8709°E
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan trap
(
1♂
); Hurshat Tal,
13.iii.1996
,
R. Kasher
(
1♂
);
Jerusalem,
19.iii.1955
,
J. Wahrman
(
1♀
);
Jerusalem [Yerushalayim],
13.iv.2014
,
I. Arar
,
on
Crepis aspera
(
1♀
) and
Sinapis arvensis
(
1♂
);
27.ii.2015
,
T. Jumah
(
1♂
); Kfar Giladi [Kefar Gil’adi],
1.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
,
1♂
);
12.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
24.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
); Kfar Menahem [Kefar Menahem],
19.ii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
);
Lakhish,
3 km
NE,
26.ii.2016
,
31.578°N
34.870°E
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♂
);
4.iii.2016
,
31.575°N
34.870°E
,
G. Pisanty
(
2♂
);
11.iii.2016
,
31.575°N
34.870°E
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
);
Majdal Shams,
1100 m
,
27.iv.2020
,
33.262°N
35.755°E
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♀
);
Malkia [Malkiyya],
27.iv.2014
,
O. Winberger
,
pan traps
(
2♀
);
Matzuva [Mazuva],
18.iii.1951
,
J. Wahrman
(
1♀
);
Meirav [Hare Gilboa’, Merav], Har Avinadav,
420 m
,
20.iii.2012
,
32º28’N
35º26’E
,
L. Friedman
(
1♂
);
Merom Golan,
3.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
5♀
,
4♂
);
20.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
3♂
);
23.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
2♂
);
Mount Carmel
,
2 km
SE Haifa
University,
24.iii.1990
,
A. Dafni
(
2♀
,
6♂
);
Mount Carmel
[Har Shana (Carmel)],
24.iii.1989
,
J. Kugler
(
1♀
);
Mount Hermon
,
23.iv.1973
,
H. Bytinski-Salz
(
4♂
) (
A. holophila
paratype
labels); [Har Hermon],
1640 m
,
7.iv.2021
,
33.300°N
35.7675°E
,
G. Pisanty
, sweeping (
2♂
);
1644 m
,
33.2992°N
35.7670°E
,
16.iv.2022
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan trap
(
1♂
);
1645 m
,
16.iv.2021
,
33.2994°N
35.7675°E
,
G. Pisanty
,
pan traps
(
2♂
) and sweeping (
1♂
);
[Sheh],
26.v.1972
,
M. Tintpulver
(
1♀
);
Mount Meron
[Har Meron],
5.iv.2016
,
32.9945°N
35.415°E
,
G. Pisanty
(
1♂
);
Nahal Alexander
,
30.iii.2021
,
K. Levy
(
1♀
);
Nahal
‘
Iyyon
,
430 m
,
HaTanur Waterfall
,
33º16.064’N
35º34.500’E
,
15.iii.2011
,
E. Morgulis
(
1♂
);
Nahal
‘
Iyyon Nature Reserve
, haTanur [Tanur],
15.iii.1975
,
F. Kaplan
(
1♂
);
Nahal Sa’ar
,
30.iii.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
,
5♂
);
Nimrod Castle
[Qala’at Nemrod],
6.v.1987
,
A. Shlagman
(
1♀
);
Road
869,
1.65 km
W Daliyyot Junction
,
428 m
,
11.iv.2019
,
32.892°N
35.760°E
,
A. Dorchin
,
O. Halbershtat
&
Y. Mersman
(
1♀
);
Snir
,
Hermon Field Study Center
,
5.iii.1996
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
31.iii.1996
,
R. Kasher
,
on
Rhagadiolus stellatus
(
1♀
);
4.iv.1996
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
6.iv.1996
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
27.iii.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
3.iv.1997
,
R. Kasher
(
1♀
);
WEST BANK
:
Mevo Horon
,
24.ii.2010
,
G. Pisanty
,
on
Glebionis coronaria
(
2♂
);
SYRIA
:
Stausee
,
10 km
SW
Homs
,
500 m
,
15.iv.1992
,
M. Kraus
&
K. Warncke
(
2♂
) (
OLML
,
SMNHTAU
).
Remarks.
Andrena tadauchii
was originally described from a single female as
A. humilis prunella
Warncke, 1975
, but this name was preoccupied by an unrelated taxon described from
Afghanistan
(nec
A. prunella
Warncke, 1974
). Due to the scarcity of material, Warncke could not associate the two sexes together, and labeled the males as
A. holophila
nomen nudum, but died before publishing them.
Gusenleitner (1998)
renamed
A. h.
prunella
as
A. tadauchii
, associated the sexes together and described the male. In the Warncke collection, only the female was available for study until recently, when specimens used to describe the male were discovered in an unmarked box.
Andrena tadauchii
is part of the
humilis
-group within the subgenus
Chlorandrena
, though its male is highly unusual for this group as its sternum 8 is noticeably enlarged and resembles members of the
rhenana
-group. As a result,
Wood
et al.
2020a
misdiagnosed
A. edentula
as an undescribed taxon belonging to the
rhenana
-group, and not the male of
tadauchii
. After inspection of the missing material, the two taxa are synonymised, and male material has been integrated into the Warncke collection proper.