Colletes acutus Perez , 1903

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

Colletes acutus Perez, 1903

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Bollino; sex: 2 females; occurrenceID: 710E7EAF-A075-5B97-83EB-6D202E24AAE3; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Puglia; county: Lecce; municipality: Vernole; locality: Termetito; verbatimElevation: 5 m; verbatimLatitude: 40.3391; verbatimLongitude: 18.365; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis, vid. M. Kuhlmann; Event: eventDate: 2021-05-16 /17; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC, MKC

Notes

Prior to our find, C. acutus was known in Italy only from Sardegna and Sicilia ( Comba 2019 and references therein). The Puglia records are by far the easternmost known for the species, whose range they significantly extend (Fig. 1 A).

Figures

Figure 1. Known Italian range and new records of (A) Colletes acutus Perez, 1903, Andrena compta Lepeletier, 1841, Rhodanthidium sticticum (Fabricius, 1787) and (B) Andrena binominata Smith, 1853, Rhodanthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838).