Andrena (Parandrenella) bicarinata Morawitz, 1876

Wood, Thomas James, Praz, Christophe, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Mei, Maurizio, Cornalba, Maurizio, Rosa, Paolo, Divelec, Romain Le & Michez, Denis, 2023, Revisions to the Andrena fauna of Italy, with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Fragmenta entomologica 55 (2), pp. 271-310 : 291

Andrena (Parandrenella) bicarinata Morawitz, 1876

Remarks. Listed by Comba (2019) [species 167], citing Giordani Soika (1933) and Grandi (1954) who mentioned the species from the Veneto region and Emilia-Romagna, respectively. Comba (2019) notes that the presence of this species in Italy is dubious. Andrena bicarinata is a junior synonym of A. (Parandrenella) tuberculiventris Morawitz, 1876 (see Astafurova et al. 2022) and is restricted to Central Asia. These previous authors may have been referring to A. (Parandrenella) atrata Friese, 1887 which comes as far west as Istria in Croatia, but which has not been confidently recorded from Italy. In any case, A. tuberculiventris is clearly not present in Italy, and hence A. bicarinata is excluded from the fauna.