Megachilidae

Balzan, Mario V., Rasmont, Pierre, Kuhlmann, Michael, Dathe, Holger, Pauly, Alain, Patiny, Sébastien, Terzo, Michael & Michez, Denis, 2016, The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4162 (2), pp. 225-244 : 238

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:66A27020-42C5-4170-B137-C54296B21F8C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075176

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megachilidae
status

 

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Osmia (Osmia) tricornis (Latreille 1811)

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929)

Distribution: West Mediterranean Basin, Corsica, and Sardinia.

Osmia tricornis has often been confounded with closely related O. kohlii , which occurs in Malta and Sicily. However, these two species show an allopatric distribution ( Müller, 2015).

Megachile argentata (Fabricius, 1793)

Previous Reports: Valletta (1971)

Distribution: Algeria, Hungary

The species M. argentata has often been confounded with Megachile leachella (Curtis, 1828) ( Schwarz and Gusenleitner 2011) , but the latter has not been recorded from the Maltese Islands. M. leachella is present in Continental Europe and North Africa.

Alfken, J. D. (1929) Ueber eine Hymenopteren-Ausbeute von Malta. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Verein, 15 - 17, 9 - 11.

Muller, A. (2015) Palaearctic Osmiine Bees, ETH Zurich. Available from: http: // blogs. ethz. ch / osmiini (accessed 16 February 2016)

Schwarz, M. Gusdenleitner, F. (2011) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Megachile (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Megachilinae). Entomofauna Zeitschrift Fur Entomologie, 32, 249 - 260.

Valletta, A. (1971) A preliminary list of the Hymenoptera Aculeata (excluding ants) of the Maltese Islands. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 107, 45 - 46.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Megachilidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Osmia