Melitta (Cilissa) bicollaris Warncke, 1973

Özbek, Hikmet & Online, Published, 2014, Distribution data on the family Melittidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey with considerations about their importance as pollinators, Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (2), pp. 444-459 : 452

3.3.3. Melitta (Cilissa) bicollaris Warncke, 1973

Distribution: Warncke (1973) described the female of M. bicollaris from Erzurum. Later, Michez and Eardley (2007) described the male based on a pair of specimens collected from Erzurum. So far it has been known only from Artvin, Erzincan, Erzurum, and Kars provinces ( Figure 2 ). With the present data it is endemic to East Anatolia.

Material: Erzurum: Atatürk University Campus , 09.07.1976, 2 ♀♀, leg. H. Özbek,det. H.Özbek ; 15.07.1972, 2 ♀♀, leg. H. Özbek, det. K. Warncke ; 13.07.1972, 5 ♀♀, leg. H. Özbek, det. K. Warncke and H. Özbek; 18.07.1972, 5 ♀♀, 11 ♂♂, leg. H. Özbek, det. H. Özbek; 28.07.1972, 10 ♀♀, leg. H. Özbek, det. H. Özbek (all samples on O. viciifolia ); 2000 m, 39.90250_41.23500, 02.07.2002, ♂, leg. J. G. Rozen and H. Özbek, det. D. Michez; Umudum plateau, 2200 m, 14.07.1990, 12 ♀♀, leg. H. Özbek and Ş. Güçlü, det. H. Özbek ; Tortum, Pehlivanlı , 12- 29.07.1992, 2 ♀♀, leg. E. Yıldırım, det. D. Michez ; Şenkaya, Turnalı , 06.07.1990, 2 ♂♂, leg. E. Yıldırım, det. H. Özbek.

Plants associated: Astragalus aduncus , A. bicolor , A. gummifer , A. lagurus , A. ponticus , Hedysarum elegans , Lotus corniculatus , Medicago papillosa , M. sativa , Melilotus alba , M. officinalis , Onobrychis cana , O. cf. stenostachya , O. transcaucasica , O. viciifolia , Medicago sativa , Trifolium montanum , T. repens , and Vicia cracca .

Figures

Figure 2. Distribution of the genera Macropis and Melitta in Turkey.