Stelis ornatula (Klug, 1807)

Wood, Thomas James, Cross, Ian & Baldock, David W., 2020, Updates to the bee fauna of Portugal with the description of three new Iberian Andrena species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4790 (2), pp. 201-228 : 223-224

Stelis ornatula (Klug, 1807)

Distribution: Europe, North Africa, and into Asia ( Kasparek 2015).

Notes: The distribution map for Stelis ornatula presented by Kasparek (2015) in his review of West Palearctic Stelis includes Portugal. However, this record comes from the island of Madeira ( Fellendorf et al. 1999) and we know of no records from mainland Portugal itself.

Stelis ornatula is the parasite of Hoplitis claviventris (Thomson, 1872) and H. leucomelana (Kirby, 1802) ( Kasparek 2015) , both of which occur in Portugal ( Baldock et al. 2018). Stelis ornatula is known from Spain and is therefore highly likely to occur in mainland Portugal, but for now its presence here must be considered unconfirmed.