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Andrena (Poecilandrena) viridescens Viereck 1916
Authors/Creators
- 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333 CR, Leiden, Netherlands
- 2. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Duhok, Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
- 3. Via Matteo Babini 26, 00139, Roma, Italy
- 4. Khabat Technical Institute, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
- 5. Via dei Tarquini 22, 01100 VT, Viterbo, Italy
Description
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Andrena(Poecilandrena)viridescensViereck, 1916Literature records.
Morice (1921 b); Derwesh (1965), mentioning “ Survey of Iraq Fauna 1915–1919 ”, as A. cyanescens Nylander, 1852 nec. Haliday; Augul (2018).
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 5 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI / TJWC.
Remarks.
Members of the subgenus Poecilandrena Hedicke, 1933 are challenging to identify (e. g., Pisanty et al. 2018), but we can confirm the record of Morice (1921 b) through the examination of newly collected material.
Distribution.
Europe to Turkey, Iraq, Iran (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002; Wood and Monfared 2022).
Notes
Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MSVI, TJWC
- Event date
- 2023-05-11
- Verbatim event date
- 2023-05-11
- Scientific name authorship
- Viereck
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Andrenidae
- Genus
- Andrena
- Species
- viridescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Andrena (Poecilandrena) viridescens Viereck, 1916 sec. Wood, Ismael, Baiocchi, Hamad, Bapir & Selis, 2024
References
- Morice FD (1921 b) Annotated lists of Aculeate Hymenoptera (except Heterogyna) and Chrysids recently collected in Mesopotamia and North-west Persia. (Continued from p. 828, Vol. XXVII.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28: 192–203.
- Derwesh AI (1965) A preliminary list of identified insects and arachnids of Iraq. Director General Agriculture Research Projections Baghdad. Bulletin 112: 121–123.
- Augul RS (2018) Study on diversity of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from different regions of Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 15 (1): 57–75. https://doi.org/10.26842/binhm.7.2018.15.1.0057
- Pisanty G, Scheuchl E, Dorchin N (2018) Taxonomic review of the subgenus Andrena (Poecilandrena) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in Israel and the Levant. Zootaxa 4374 (2): 151–188. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4374.2.1
- Gusenleitner F, Schwarz M (2002) Weltweite Checkliste der Bienengattung Andrena mit Bemerkungen und Ergänzungen zu paläarktischen Arten (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Andreninae, Andrena). Entomofauna (Supplement 10): 1–1280.
- Wood TJ, Monfared A (2022) A revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Iran, with the description of 16 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 843: 1–136. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.843.1947