Megachile semicircularis auct. nec Zanden, 1996

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

Megachile semicircularis auct. nec Zanden, 1996

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 2 females; occurrenceID: A9354F52-B924-55D9-835C-CDD088556550; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Viterbo; locality: Necropoli etrusca di Norchia; verbatimElevation: 130-160 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.3381; verbatimLongitude: 11.9456; Identification: identifiedBy: Christophe Praz; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-24; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC, CPC

Notes

This species is recorded for the first time in Italy. Elsewhere, it is distributed from Greece through Turkey and Crimea to Iran ( Ascher and Pickering 2023, C. Praz, personal communication 2022). It has generally been known as Megachile semicircularis Zanden. However, the holotype of the latter is a male of M. apicalis Spinola, 1808 (C. Praz, personal communication 2022).