Anthophora affinis Brulle , 1832

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

Anthophora affinis Brulle, 1832

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 2F6A4BED-0898-5E4D-8D6B-0E9664425347; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Camporosso; verbatimElevation: 366 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.8236; verbatimLongitude: 7.6064; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba, vid. P. Rasmont; Event: eventDate: 2018-05-13; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 0D5FA78E-2F74-5670-BD9C-7F155E4240C7; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Apricale; verbatimElevation: 550 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.9047; verbatimLongitude: 7.6819; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba, vid. P. Rasmont; Event: eventDate: 2018-05-08; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 5605EECE-EEE7-5EA5-8740-6D64DD74275D; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Pigna; verbatimElevation: 1235 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.9578; verbatimLongitude: 7.6278; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino; Event: eventDate: 2020-05-18; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC

Notes

The occurrence of A. affinis in Italy was for a long time unclear, mostly due to persistent confusion with other species, chiefly A. mucida Gribodo, 1873 and A. agama Radoszkowski, 1869. The species is said to be of uncertain presence in Italy by Rasmont and Dehon (2015). Images: Suppl. material 2, Figs. S19-S22.