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Anthidium (Proanthidium) undulatum Dours 1873

Description

Anthidium (Proanthidium) undulatum Dours, 1873

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Northern and eastern Mediterranean and east to Iran, Algeria (Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Local distribution fig. 14.6

Literature. Pérez (1911): Mount Lebanon, Beit Meri, 14.VI.1908, det. Pérez J., leg. Gadeau de Kerveille H.

Warncke (1980) assigned the material from Lebanon to the subspecies holozonicum (Mavromoustakis, 1939).

Material examined. Bekaa: Hadath, 1441 m, 7.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Jord Aarsal, 1975 m, 11.VII.2019, 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Anjar, Guest house, 973 m, 23.VII.2019, 1♀, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA.

N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine, 1800 m, 25.VI.2006, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Nemer N., coll. TCFNR; Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain Al Raha, 1187 m, 29.VI.2017, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar, 1765 m, 28.VI.2017, 1♀, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar, 1765 m, 18.VII.2017, 1♀, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar, 1736 m, 11.VII.2018, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar, 1736 m, 18.VII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Hadath El Jebbeh, Road to Wadi Al Fouar, 1553 m, 22.VIII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Arz Tannourine, Trail 4, 1781 m, 27.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta, Mar Boutrous, 1207 m, 27.VI.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA.

S. Lebanon: Saidoun, El Mrouj, 15.VI.2017, 1♀, det. Litman J., leg. Baghdadi A., coll. SOILS.

Flower records. Fabaceae: Ononis natrix, O. spinosa; Lamiaceae: Lavandula x intermedia, Stachys distans.

Müller (1996) reports a strong preference for Leguminosae for this polylectic species that we also observe here.

Notes

Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018

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References

  • Ascher, J. S. & Pickering, J. (2021) Discover life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). Available from: http: // www. discoverlife. org / mp / 20 q? guide = Apoidea _ species (accessed 10 September 2020)
  • Perez, J. (1911) Especes nouvelles de melliferes recueillies en Syrie par M. Henri Gadeau de Kerville en 1908 et decrites par J. Perez (supplement). Bulletin de la Societe des Amis de Sciences Naturelles de Rouen, 47, 77 - 85.
  • Warncke, K. (1980) Die Bienengattung Anthidium Fabricius, 1804 in der Westpalaarktis und im turkestanischen Becken. Entomofauna, Linz, 1 (10), 119 - 209
  • Muller, A. (1996) Convergent evolution of morphological specializations in Central European bee and honey wasp species as an adaptation to the uptake of pollen from nototribic flowers (Hymenoptera, Apoidea and Masaridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 57, 235 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.1006 / bijl. 1996.0013