Andrena confinis Stoeckhert, 1930

Cornalba, Maurizio, Quaranta, Marino, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Gamba, Sirio, Mei, Maurizio, Bonifacino, Marco, Cappellari, Andree, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Tempesti, Stefano & Biella, Paolo, 2024, Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 116014-116014 : 116014

Andrena confinis Stoeckhert, 1930

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 8F313DBC-14BA-548B-B03D-B88CFFA1979C; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 666 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.8247; verbatimLongitude: 9.0767; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2022-04-08; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 7B6CF6F8-E753-51E4-BBCF-E048481AC418; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 651 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.8257; verbatimLongitude: 9.0753; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2023-03-28; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC

Notes

Found in patrolling flight along paths in deciduous woodland. One specimen confirmed by DNA barcoding: 100% match with all A. confinis sequences in BOLD. These appear to be the first Italian records of the species. However, as A. confinis was formerly considered conspecific with Andrena congruens Schmiedeknecht, 1883, specimens of A. confinis from Italy are almost certainly present in collections under the latter name. A. confinis is said to occur in Italy by Scheuchl and Willner (2016). However, this statement does not seem to be based on actual records, but only on inference. In fact, they mention only records from England, several Central European countries, Bashkortostan in Russia and Greece and then comment that the species almost certainly occurs also in the areas in between.