Andrena (Poecilandrena) rusticola Warncke, 1975

Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin & Dorchin, Netta, 2018, Taxonomic review of the subgenus Andrena (Poecilandrena) (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in Israel and the Levant, Zootaxa 4374 (2), pp. 151-188 : 163-164

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scientific name	Andrena (Poecilandrena) rusticola Warncke, 1975
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( Figs. 9 View FIGURES 1–12 , 37 View FIGURES 37–48 , 50 View FIGURES 49–56 , 59 View FIGURES 57–64 , 78 View FIGURES 73–87 , 91 View FIGURES 88–99 , 104 View FIGURES 100–107 , 117 View FIGURES 114–127 , 130, 136 View FIGURES 128–138 )

Andrena rusticola Warncke, 1975: 37 . ♀. Type locality: Turkey, İslahiye. Type depository: OLML .

Description of male. Body length: 5.5–7 mm.

Color. Head and thorax black ( Figs. 78 View FIGURES 73–87 , 91 View FIGURES 88–99 ). Clypeus with large, triangular medial yellow spot, penetrated laterally by two small black wedge-shaped spots; paraocular area black ( Fig. 78 View FIGURES 73–87 ). Anterior side of flagellomeres 3– 11 greyish-black to brown. Legs dark brown to black. Wings brownish-hyaline, veins dark brown, stigma dark brown to black. Tergal discs dark brown to black; marginal zones brown to black ( Fig. 104 View FIGURES 100–107 ).

Pubescence. Hair on head and thorax mostly brightly colored and plumose. Clypeus with dense long white hairs laterally ( Fig. 78 View FIGURES 73–87 ). Paraocular area with white to brownish hairs of medium length. Scape with brownish hairs of varying length. Vertex with white to brown short and long hairs. Genal area with medium white to brown hairs dorsally, long white hairs ventrally. Mesonotum, scutellum and metanotum with sparse long white to brownish hairs. Mesepisternum with very long white hairs. Propodeum with long white hairs. Femora and tibiae with white hairs. Tarsi with white to brownish hairs. Terga with minute inconspicuous bright hairs; lateral parts with sparse, short white hairs. Tergal apical hair bands absent. Prepygidial fimbria white to brownish.

Head. 1.2 times broader than long. Galea finely shagreened. Clypeus weakly convex, superficially shagreened to smooth, weakly punctured, with impunctate midline, distance between punctures 1–2 puncture diameters, puncture size medium ( Fig. 78 View FIGURES 73–87 ). Flagellomere 1 about 1.5 times as long as broad, slightly shorter than 2+3; 2 broader than long; 3 almost square; the following square to slightly longer than broad. Ocelloccipital distance about 1 ocellus diameter.

Mesosoma. Dorsolateral angle of pronotum not elevated. Mesonotum shagreened, punctation of shallow to moderate depth and fine to coarse size, distance between punctures 1–2 puncture diameters ( Fig. 91 View FIGURES 88–99 ). Scutellum finely punctured, shagreened to almost smooth medially ( Fig. 91 View FIGURES 88–99 ). Mesepisternum shagreened, anteriodorsal part roughened and with dense, coarse U-shaped punctures. Basal part of propodeum horizontal. Propodeal triangle rugose basally and finely alveolate apically. Lateral parts of propodeum reticulately shagreened, impunctate. Recurrent vein 1 meeting submarginal cell 2 near its middle. Nervulus strongly antefurcal.

Metasoma. Disc of tergum 1 weakly shagreened, smoother apically, very finely punctured, distance between punctures 1.5–2 puncture diameters ( Fig. 104 View FIGURES 100–107 ). Discs of terga 2–4 shiny, smooth to very weakly shagreened medially and apically, more strongly shagreened basally, finely to very finely punctured, puncture size and density decreasing from tergum 2 to 4, distance between punctures 1–3 puncture diameters ( Fig. 104 View FIGURES 100–107 ). Tergal marginal zones 1–4 weakly depressed, more or less smooth and impunctate.

Genitalia and hidden sterna. Gonocoxites connected. Dorsal lobe of gonocoxite absent ( Fig. 117 View FIGURES 114–127 ). Penis valves with elongate lateral lamellar extensions, gradually tapering apically, apex needlelike. Gonostyli arched basally, straight apically ( Figs. 117 View FIGURES 114–127 , 130 View FIGURES 128–138 ). Sternite 8 columnar, narrow and elongate, apex weakly broadened ( Fig. 136 View FIGURES 128–138 ).

Differential diagnosis. The male of A. rusticola closely resembles that of A. kondarensis Osytshnjuk from Central Asia but differs from it in the absence of metallic luster (sometimes weakly present in A. kondarensis ), completely shagreened and matt mesonotum (smooth and shiny medially in A. kondarensis ), and the largely bare metasoma (with distinct white hair fringes in A. kondarensis ). The genital capsules of the two species are very similar.

Distribution: Israel, Turkey.

Flight period: March–May.

Flower records: Plantaginaceae : Veronica leiocarpa (1♀). Most individuals collected from pan traps.

Material examined: ISRAEL AND WEST BANK: Bar'am, 4.iv.2014, O. Winberger (7♀, 4♂) ; 7.iv.2015, O. Winberger (3♂); 1.iv.2016, O. Winberger (8♀, 1♂); Dovev , 8.iv.2014, O. Winberger (1♂) ; 3.iv.2016, O. Winberger (3♀); Gush Halav , 13.iv.2016, O. Winberger (1♂) ; Har Addir , 5.iv.2016, G. Pisanty (1♀, 3♂) ; Malkiyya , 27.iv.2014, O. Winberger (2♀) ; 26.iv.2015, O. Winberger (1♀); 4.iv.2016, O. Winberger (3♀); Meron , 22.iv.1973, D. Furth (1♀) ; Monfort , 4.iii.2010, A. Freidberg (1♂) ; Mount Meron , 9.iv.1977, A. Freidberg (1♂) ; 5.iv.2016, G. Pisanty (1♀, 6♂); 4.iv.2017, G. Pisanty (1♀, 8♂); 21.iv.2017, G. Pisanty (2♀, 1♂); Mount Meron , 900m, 13.iv.1988, I. Yarom (1♂) ; Mount Meron , 1000m, 14.iv.2011, L. Friedman (1♂) ; 17.iv.2012, L. Friedman (5♂); Mount Meron , 1100m, 17.iv.2000, A. Freidberg (4♂) ; Sasa , 20.iv.2015, O. Winberger (2♀, 2♂) ; 14.iv.2016, O. Winberger (2♀, 19♂); Tiv'on , 2.iv.1975, F. Kaplan (1♀) ; Ya'ar Nehosha , 25.iv.2011, T. Koznichki (1♀) ; Yiftach , 30.iii.2016, O. Winberger (1♀) ; Yir'on , 22.iv.2014, O. Winberger (1♀) ; Ziv'on , 1km SW, 15.v.2015, G. Pisanty (1♀) ; 5.iv.2016, G. Pisanty (1♀, 13♂); 21.iv.2017, G. Pisanty , on Veronica leiocarpa (1♀) (ES, OLML, RMNH, SMNHTAU, ZSMC); TURKEY: Holotype: İslahiye, 19.iv.1966 (♀) ( OLML).