Andrena (Ulandrena) speciosa Friese, 1899

Wood, Thomas James, Michez, Denis, Cejas, Diego, Lhomme, Patrick & Rasmont, Pierre, 2020, An update and revision of the Andrena fauna of Morocco (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Andrenidae) with the description of eleven new North African species, ZooKeys 974, pp. 31-92 : 31

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.974.54794

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scientific name

Andrena (Ulandrena) speciosa Friese, 1899
status

 

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Material examined.

Morocco: Fès-Meknès, 20 km north of Missour, 14.v.1995, 1♀, leg. Ma. Halada, OÖLM.

Distribution and remarks.

Previously known from Syria, Jordan, and Israel through North Africa to Algeria ( Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002). There are only two Ulandrena in north-western Africa, and A. speciosa is instantly separable in the female sex from A. (Ulandrena) tadorna Warncke, 1974 as the former has a yellow clypeus and lower paraocular areas, whereas those of the latter are completely black.

Gusenleitner, F, Schwarz, M, 2002. Weltweite Checkliste der Bienengattung Andrena mit Bemerkungen und Ergaenzungen zu palaearktischen Arten (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Andreninae, Andrena). Entomofauna Supplement 10: 1 - 1280

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Apoidea

Family

Andrenidae

Genus

Andrena