Hoplitis (Stenosmia) minima Schulthess 1924
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Osmia minima Schulthess, 1924: 314.
Type material: Lectotype ♂, by designation of Zanden (1986), “ Kairouan ” (Tunisia), Entomological Collection of ETH Zurich.
Osmia (Stenosmia) minutissima Warncke, 1991: 404. Nomen novum with same type specimen for preoccupied Osmia minima Schulthess (not Apis florisomnis minima Christ, 1791).
New records. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Arava valley, Iddan, 28.4.2010, 6.– 17.3.2011. MOROCCO: Tagounite, 60km S Zagora, 23.4.1995. OMAN: Al Masna’ah, 28.2.2008; Birkat al Mauwz, 1.3.2008. TUNISIA: Nefta, 22.3.2001, 28.3.2006, 25.4.2012; 15km W Nefta, 22.3.2001; Tozeur, 23.3.2001; Kebili, 8.4.2001; Medenine, 10km S Zarzis, 22.4.2012. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: N Ajman, 11.3.2008; Liwa Oasis, 10km S Arada, 10.1.2011; Liwa Desert, 8km S Arada, 4.– 13.1.2011; Jebel Hafit, 3.3.2011.
Distribution. From northern Africa (Morocco, Tunisia) to Israel and Palestine and to the Arabian Peninsula (Oman, United Arab Emirates).
Pollen hosts. Oligolectic on Zygophyllaceae: 38 of 39 pollen loads (11 localities, 5 countries) consisted of Zygophyllaceae pollen, and large numbers of males and females of H. minima have been observed on the flowers of Zygophyllum album in southern Tunisia (Figs. 1, 2). One pollen load consisted of pollen of Brassicaceae, indicating that flowers of this plant family might occasionally be exploited as well.
Nesting biology. Unknown.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ETH
- Scientific name authorship
- Schulthess
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Genus
- Hoplitis
- Species
- minima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hoplitis (Stenosmia) minima Schulthess, 1924 sec. Müller, 2014
References
- Schulthess, A. von (1924) Contribution a la connaissance de la faune des hymenopteres de l'Afrique du Nord. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord, 15, 293 - 320.
- Zanden, G. van der (1986) Untersuchungen an einigen wenig bekannten Osmia - und Megachile - Arten mit Beschreibung zweier neuer Taxa (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilidae). Reichenbachia, 24, 65 - 74.
- Warncke, K. (1991) Die Bienengattung Osmia Panzer, 1806, ihre Systematik in der Westpalaarktis und ihre Verbreitung in der Turkei. 6. Die Untergattung Stenosmia Michener, 1941, comb. nov. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Entomofauna, 12, 401 - 412.