Andrena (Poliandrena) melaleuca Perez , 1895

Wood, Thomas James, Michez, Denis, Cejas, Diego, Lhomme, Patrick & Rasmont, Pierre, 2020, An update and revision of the Andrena fauna of Morocco (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Andrenidae) with the description of eleven new North African species, ZooKeys 974, pp. 31-92 : 31

Andrena (Poliandrena) melaleuca Perez, 1895

Material examined.

Morocco: Fès-Meknès, Aghbalou, Akourar, 9.v.2019, 1♀, Marrubium vulgare , leg. L. Hamroud & A. Sentil, UMONS.

Distribution and remarks.

Known from Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya ( Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002), this bee is similar to A. macroptera Warncke, 1974 and A. corax Warncke, 1967 but has a slimmer body shape than the former and has hairbands on the metasoma in contrast to the latter, as well as more subtle morphological differences in the structure of the integument.