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 ( Chlorandrena ) taraxaci Giraud, 1861 Distribution: Eastern Europe, Turkey ( Schwenninger 2015 ). Remarks. Several literature records mention this species from Israel , without specifying collection data ( Mavromoustakis 1958 ; Dylewska 1987 ; Osytshnjuk & al. 2005 ; Shebl & Tadauchi 2009 ; Proshchalykin et al. 2017 ). These unverified records may refer to A . orientana Warncke , originally described as a subspecies of A . taraxaci ( Warncke 1965 ) .