Andrena (Ulandrena) abbreviata ssp. osychniukae Osytshnjuk, 1977

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 : 287

Andrena (Ulandrena) abbreviata ssp. osychniukae Osytshnjuk, 1977

Remarks. Listed by Comba (2019) [species 225] and by Pagliano (1994) who cites Grandi (1954) [“ Lazio ”]. This listing has a long history of confusion. The original source is Stöckhert who in Pittioni & Schmidt (1943: 38) wrote that A. leucorhina Morawitz, 1876 was present in Italy based on specimens collected by Grandi around Rome. Warncke (1973) discusses this issue, and notes that he described this Italian taxon as A. combaella Warncke, 1966 , before naming material in south-eastern Europe as A. abbreviata osychniuki nomen nudum (a debatable point that is not addressed here), a taxon that was subsequently described by Osytshnjuk as A. abbreviata ssp. osychniukae Osytshnjuk, 1977 (following emendation, see Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002). This long nomenclatural story will be definitively settled in an upcoming work (Wood, in prep.). In the meantime, A. abbreviata ssp. osychniukae is excluded from the Italian fauna; although we have identified three females from southern Italy provisionally identified as this taxon, females are extremely difficult to separate from A. combaella . Until a verified male of A. abbreviata ssp. osychniukae is found in Italy, it must remain unconfirmed.

Material examined.

ITALY: PUGLIA: 1♀, Lecce, 28 May 1974, leg. Ph. Pronk ( RMNH) . SICILY: 2♀, 35 km N Gela , NE Piazza Ar- merina, 27–29 May 2002, leg. J. Halada ( OÖLM) .

Species excluded from the Italian fauna