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Andrena (Aenandrena) chaetogastra Pittioni 1950

Description

Andrena (Aenandrena) chaetogastra Pittioni, 1950

(Fig. 254)

Distribution: Cyprus.

Material examined: PARATYPE: CYPRUS: Troodos, 16-22.vi.1939, H. Lindberg (1♀) (NHMUK); (A. bisulcata Morawitz): ISRAEL: Alonim, 26.iv.1943, H. Bytinski-Salz (1♀); Dovrat, 18.iv.1970, H. Bytinski-Salz (1♀); Haifa, 22.iv.1973, A. Freidberg (1♀); Jerusalem, Rehavia West, 27.iv.1945, on Astomaea seselifolia (1♀) (SMNHTAU).

Remarks. Material cited by Warncke (1969) from Israel was reidentified as A. bisulcata Morawitz, and so A. chaetogastra is removed from the Israeli list and confirmed as endemic to the Troodos mountains in central Cyprus. In direct comparison, the depressed tergal marginal zones in A. chaetogastra occupy a noticeably greater proportion of the visible surface, on tergum 4 occupying almost the entire area (Fig. 254). The hind tibiae and all the tarsi are also orange, whereas in A. bisulcata they are black.

Notes

Published as part of Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin, Martin, Teresa, Cardinal, Sophie & Wood, Thomas James, 2022, Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 5185 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7073826

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References

  • Pittioni, B. (1950) Hymenoptera aculeata I. On the insect fauna of Cyprus. Results of the Expedition of 1939 by Harald, Hakan and P. H. Lindberg. Commentationes Biologicae, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 10, 1 - 94.
  • Warncke, K. (1969) A contribution to the knowledge of the genus Andrena (Apoidea) in Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 4, 377 - 408.