Andrena (Leucandrena) favosa Morawitz, 1872

WOOD, T. J., 2024, Further revisions to the Palaearctic Andrena fauna (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Zootaxa 5483 (1), pp. 1-150 : 44-45

Andrena (Leucandrena) favosa Morawitz, 1872

Andrena favosa Morawitz, 1872: 365 , 1♀ [ Austria, NMW, lectotype by present designation] ( Figures 27A–D )

Remarks. Astafurova et al. (2021; 2022b) also concluded that the type material of A. favosa was not in the ZISP collection. Examination of the NMW collection produced a female from Piesting collected by the Austrian entomologist Carl Tschek (†1872) in 1870, which matches Morawitz’s published locality and collector information, and the specimen is also labelled by Morawitz with a handwritten label. It may automatically be the holotype, but this is ambiguous from Morawitz’s description, and so it is designated as a lectotype in order to confirm its location and to confirm that the currently accepted synonymy with A. sericata Imhoff, 1868 is correct ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002).

Distribution ( Andrena sericata ). Central and Eastern Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Urals, Turkey, and the Caucasus ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002).

Material examined. AUSTRIA: Piesting [Markt Piesting], 1870, 1♀, leg. Tschek, NMW (lectotype by present designation) .

Figures

FIGURE 27. Andrena (Leucandrena) favosa Morawitz, 1872 lectotype female. A. Label details; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Face, frontal view; D. Terga, dorsal view.