Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990 )

Müller, Andreas, 2015, Palaearctic Hoplitis bees of the subgenus Platosmia (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species, Zootaxa 3936 (1), pp. 71-81 : 73

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:315433DC-4A07-4804-A4A0-3CB84750494B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6100760

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87BE-FFB4-996E-FF63-FDDDFDABFC6B

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Plazi

scientific name

Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990 )
status

 

Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990) View in CoL

Osmia (Platosmia) alchata Warncke, 1990: 489 View in CoL . Type material: Holotype ♀, “ 20 km SO Harran/Urfa, 23.5.1983 ” ( Turkey), Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz.

New records. IRAN: Teheran province, Sorkheh Hesar National Park, 24.5.2009. SYRIA: 50km S of Homs, 24.5.1996; Palmyra, 12.4.2004.

Distribution. From southernmost Turkey to central Syria and eastwards to northern Iran. Pollen hosts. Possibly oligolectic on Reseda (Resedaceae) and possibly also closely related genera: all eight pollen loads (3 localities, 3 countries) analysed so far exclusively consisted of Reseda pollen. Nesting biology. Several females were observed to nest in a limestone stone of about 0.5m height ( Warncke, 1990). Nesting material unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Hoplitis

Loc

Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990 )

Müller, Andreas 2015
2015
Loc

Osmia (Platosmia) alchata

Warncke 1990: 489
1990
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