Andrena (Aenandrena) chaetogastra Pittioni, 1950

Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin, Martin, Teresa, Cardinal, Sophie & Wood, Thomas James, 2022, Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant, Zootaxa 5185 (1), pp. 1-109 : 100

Andrena (Aenandrena) chaetogastra Pittioni, 1950

( Fig. 254 )

Distribution: Cyprus.

Material examined: PARATYPE: CYPRUS: Troodos , 16-22.vi.1939, H. Lindberg (1♀) ( NHMUK); ( A. bisulcata Morawitz ) : ISRAEL: Alonim , 26.iv.1943, H. Bytinski-Salz (1♀) ; Dovrat , 18.iv.1970, H. Bytinski-Salz (1♀) ; Haifa, 22.iv.1973, A. Freidberg (1♀) ; Jerusalem, Rehavia West , 27.iv.1945, on Astomaea seselifolia (1♀) ( SMNHTAU) .

Remarks. Material cited by Warncke (1969) from Israel was reidentified as A. bisulcata Morawitz , and so A. chaetogastra is removed from the Israeli list and confirmed as endemic to the Troodos mountains in central Cyprus. In direct comparison, the depressed tergal marginal zones in A. chaetogastra occupy a noticeably greater proportion of the visible surface, on tergum 4 occupying almost the entire area ( Fig. 254 ). The hind tibiae and all the tarsi are also orange, whereas in A. bisulcata they are black.

Figures

FIGURES 250–254. Andrena (incertae sedis) sulfurea sp. nov. 250. male genitalia. Andrena (incertae sedis) castanea Warncke, paratype. 251. male genitalia. Andrena (incertae sedis) hibernica caucasica Warncke, holotype. 252. male genitalia. Andrena (incertae sedis) melanota Warncke, paratype. 253. male genitalia. Andrena (Aenandrena) chaetogastra Pittioni, paratype. 254. female metasoma.