Anthophora fulvitarsis Brulle , 1832

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

Anthophora fulvitarsis Brulle, 1832

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 20DC669A-B955-5E66-ADFA-8F9F14EF2EE6; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-10; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 85EA0B68-68E7-5B92-A00A-1A69E5EAF2C3; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-11; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirio Gamba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 9BFF57A4-887D-5A2F-BEF8-BC1BF938F64F; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Imperia; municipality: Ventimiglia; verbatimElevation: 6 m; verbatimLatitude: 43.7878; verbatimLongitude: 7.6289; Identification: identifiedBy: Sirio Gamba; Event: eventDate: 2022-05-12; Record Level: collectionCode: SGC

Notes

Our specimens were found in an urban setting, in an abandoned railway yard. We are not aware of any other recent record of A. fulvitarsis in Italy. According to Comba (2019), the only literature record, from Sicilia, is in Sichel (1860). Images: Suppl. material 2, Figs. S16-S18.