Andrena (Taeniandrena) leucopsis Warncke, 1975

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 22

Andrena (Taeniandrena) leucopsis Warncke, 1975 *

Distribution: WEST PALEARCTIC.

Material examined. Arz Tannourine : Gate area, 1754 m, 7.VI.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., Mouawad G., coll. MBOU .

Notes. Grace (2010) reported this species from Lebanon without locality details.

This male specimen was reported as A. ovatula agg by Wood et al. (2020a). However, barcoding ( TJW & C. Praz, unpublished data) confirmed that it belongs to A. leucopsis . The females reported as A. ovatula agg barcode differently and do not correspond to any known European taxon. It is not currently possible to confidently place a name on this material because of the confused taxonomy of the group, and so it should remain in aggregate for now. The presence of A. leucopsis in Lebanon suggests the Warncke records from the Anti-Lebanon in southern Syria ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002) are likely to be correct.