Lasioglossum strictifrons (Vachal, 1895)

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

Lasioglossum strictifrons (Vachal, 1895)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 587B37EF-AED9-5D58-A34E-8568D2D91216; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Bomarzo; locality: fiume Tevere; verbatimElevation: 50 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5131; verbatimLongitude: 12.2744; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-28; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 3 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: 9D7A095A-D57C-538F-A283-7A28D63D43ED; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Bomarzo; locality: fiume Tevere; verbatimElevation: 50 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5131; verbatimLongitude: 12.2744; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-02; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 3 males, 5 females; occurrenceID: C57498DD-0C68-5A30-A189-B2DC0232D336; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Bomarzo; locality: fiume Tevere; verbatimElevation: 50 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5131; verbatimLongitude: 12.2744; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-05; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC, SFC, MIB:ZPL Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: E9D9A083-2ECD-5108-BF3E-293FB67A80CB; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Bomarzo; locality: fiume Tevere; verbatimElevation: 50 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5131; verbatimLongitude: 12.2744; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-10; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Selis; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: BFA155C0-9DDA-5453-892B-B8BB306C138F; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lazio; county: Viterbo; municipality: Bomarzo; locality: fiume Tevere; verbatimElevation: 50 m; verbatimLatitude: 42.5131; verbatimLongitude: 12.2744; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Selis; Event: eventDate: 2022-07-19; Record Level: collectionCode: MSC

Notes

All specimens were collected on Lythrum salicaria , on the banks of the River Tiber. Our records extend the range of the species to continental Italy (Fig. 3 A). Previously known in Italy from a single record from south-western Sardegna ( Ebmer 1986). Elsewhere, the species range includes Iberia, southern France and the Maghreb ( Ebmer 1986). We sequenced two of our specimens. Only one sequence, labelled Lasioglossum strictifrons , from southern Portugal, was available in BOLD for comparison, matched at 99.02 and 99.16% by our sequences. Matches with BOLD sequences labelled as other species were all below 92%. Images: Fig. 4 .

Figures

Figure 3. Known Italian range and new records of (A) Lasioglossum strictifrons (Vachal, 1895) and (B) Lasioglossum subfulvicorne (Bluethgen, 1934).

Figure 4. Lasioglossum strictifrons (Vachal, 1895), female from Bomarzo, (A) habitus; (B) face; (C) pleura.