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Haetosmia brachyura

Description

Haetosmia brachyura (Morawitz 1875)

Osmia brachyura Morawitz 1875: 97. Type material: Holotype ♂, “in deserto Kisilkum” (Uzbekistan). Osmia latipes Morawitz 1875: 97. Type material: Holotype ♀, “in deserto Kisilkum” (Uzbekistan). Type species of Haetosmia (Popov 1952). Synonymy in Popov (1960).

Literature records: TURKMENISTAN: Uch-Adzhi (Popov 1960); Shakh-Senema ruins (Popov 1960); Imambaba (Popov 1960); Repetek (Popov 1960).

New records. TURKMENISTAN: Uch-Adzhi, 1– 3.5.1929, 1♀ (leg. A. Shestakov). UZBEKISTAN: Korhezm, 25 km S of Khiya, 26.5.2008, 1♂ (leg. C. Praz, I. Abdullaev).

Distribution. Karakum and Kyzylkum Desert of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Fig. 9).

Pollen hosts. Most probably narrowly oligolectic on Heliotropium (Gotlieb et al. 2014). Additional flower record: Salsola richteri (Amaranthaceae) (Popov 1960).

Nesting biology. Unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Müller, Andreas & Griswold, Terry, 2017, Osmiine bees of the genus Haetosmia (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species, pp. 351-364 in Zootaxa 4358 (2) on page 355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1068112

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1929-05-03 , 2008-05-26
Verbatim event date
1929-05-03 , 2008-05-26
Scientific name authorship
Morawitz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Megachilidae
Genus
Haetosmia
Species
brachyura
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Haetosmia brachyura (Morawitz, 1875) sec. Müller & Griswold, 2017

References

  • Morawitz, F. (1875) Bees (Mellifera) I. Apidae genuinae. In: Travel to Turkestan by A. P. Fedtschenko. Moscow, 160 pp.
  • Popov, V. B. (1952) Bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of south-western Turkmenia and its landscape distribution. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 10, 61 - 117.
  • Popov, V. B. (1960) New and little-known species of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Turkmenia. Trudy Zoologiceskzo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR, 27, 247 - 263.
  • Gotlieb, A., Pisanty, G., Rozen, J. G., Muller, A., Roder, G., Sedivy, C. & Praz, C. (2014) Nests, floral preferences, and immatures of the bee Haetosmia vechti (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Osmiini). American Museum Novitates, 3808, 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 3808.1