Subgenus Melittoides Friese, 1921

Melittoides Friese 1921: 177–179 .

Andrena (Melittoides) Friese: Warncke 1968: 44–45.

Melittoides Friese: Michener 2000: 258–259.

Andrena (Melittoides) Friese: Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002: 38.

Melittoides Friese: Osytshnjuk et al. 2005: 37.

Andrena (Melittoides) Friese: Michener 2007: 263.

Type species: Andrena melittoides Friese, 1899, by absolute tautonomy.

Biology: Melittoides is active in spring, foraging on diverse plant families. The single included species is a pollen generalist.

Distribution: Levant and Turkey (Wood et al. 2020).

Included species: Andrena melittoides Friese, 1899 (Levant and Turkey). Other species formerly included in Melittoides are transferred to Warnckandrena subgen. nov.

Remarks. The molecular phylogenetic analysis of Pisanty et al. showed that Warncke’s (1968) subgeneric concept of Melittoides was polyphyletic ( Pisanty et al. 2022).The subgenus is hereby recircumscribed as a monotypic taxon, with all members except Andrena melittoides transferred to Warnckandrena subgen. nov.