Andrena amieti Praz, Mueller , Genoud, 2019

Cornalba, Maurizio, Quaranta, Marino, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Gamba, Sirio, Mei, Maurizio, Bonifacino, Marco, Cappellari, Andree, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Tempesti, Stefano & Biella, Paolo, 2024, Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 116014-116014 : 116014

Andrena amieti Praz, Mueller, Genoud, 2019

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Marco Selis ; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: C 841AD 1C-06CB-55D4-BFB4-DFAE07E3BE6C; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio ; county: Rieti ; municipality: Lonessa; locality: Sella di Leonessa ; verbatimElevation: 1700-1870 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.48; verbatimLongitude: 13.0075; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis, vid. T.J. Wood; Event: eventDate: 2021-07-28; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Marco Selis ; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: 3A847C05-22A0-51A3-8D4B-71EF918B8D19; Location : countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio ; county: Rieti ; municipality: Lonessa; locality: Sella di Leonessa ; verbatimElevation: 1700-1870 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.48; verbatimLongitude: 13.0075; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis, vid. T.J. Wood; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-19; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC

Notes

In Italy, Andrena amieti had previously been recorded throughout the Alps and on Monte Pollino in Calabria ( Praz et al. 2019). Our find shows that it also occurs in the Central Apennines, as was to be expected. It is shown by Praz et al. (2019) that two divergent mitochondrial lineages are found in A. amieti . One lineage, called Group 1, is reported from Calabria and, sparingly, from the Alps. The other lineage occurs widely in the Alps. DNA barcoding of one of our specimens confirmed the morphological identification and showed that the specimen belongs to Group 1. The match with the two sequences from Calabria in BOLD (ID: HYMAA051-18, HYMAA052-18) is 100% and 99.61%.