Megachile (Chalicodoma) manicata Giraud, 1861

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 : 76

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4820819

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scientific name

Megachile (Chalicodoma) manicata Giraud, 1861
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Megachile (Chalicodoma) manicata Giraud, 1861 View in CoL ( fig. 20.4–5 View FIGURE 20. 1 )

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Northern and eastern Mediterranean ( Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Local distribution fig. 14.14 View FIGURE 14

Literature. Listed under Megachile manicata var. hammanensis Mavromoustakis, 1956

Mavromoustakis (1956) describes this variety from Lebanon with smaller size than Megachile manicata . He also reports that M. manicata “has the punctuation on anterior tergites somewhat finer than in my Lebanon females.” Mount Lebanon: Hammana, 17.V.1953, 1♀; 16.V.1953, 1♀; Mount Lebanon, Jebel el Knaisse, 1♂, 18.V.1953; Mount Lebanon, Brumanna, 11.V.1953, 2♂.

Material examined. Bekaa: Ainata , 1824 m, 30.V.2017, 1♀, leg. Boustani M., Rasmont P., coll. MBOU .

N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine , 1800 m, 25.III.2002, 1♂, leg. Nemer N., coll. TCFNR; Horch Ehden, 1797 m, 4.V.2017, 1♀, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU.Additional 22♀ and 18♂ from 14 records, collected between 5.V.2017 and 9.VIII.2018 from Fehta, Hadath El Jebbe, Jord Tannourine, Bcharre, and Arz Tannourine .

Flower records. Fabaceae : Astragalus angustifolius , Astragalus coluteoides , Astragalus cruentiflorus , Lotus gebelia libanoticus , Onobrychis cornuta , Vicia canescens , Vicia tenuifolia ; Lamiaceae : Stachys ehrenbergii .

Reported as having a preference for Fabaceae ( Gogala 2014) that we also observe in the records above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Megachile

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