Anthidiellum troodicum Mavromoustakis, 1949

Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5327 (1), pp. 1-147 : 58

Anthidiellum troodicum Mavromoustakis, 1949

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In keeping with M̧ller(1996),the east Mediterranean populations (south-eastern Europe and Turkey) of Anthidiellum breviusculum (Pérez, 1890) s.l. are assigned species rank as Anthidiellum troodicum Mavromoustakis, 1949 . The name Anthidiellum breviusculum (Pérez, 1890) is to be applied to the west Mediterranean populations only ( France, Portugal, Spain; Kasparek et al. 2023).

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FIGURE 15. A. Anthidium troodicum Mavromoustakis, 1949 female, habitus in dorsal view. The taxon was considered as a subspecies of A. breviusculum (Pérez, 1890) but has recently been upgraded to species rank by Kasparek et al. (2022). B. A. troodicum male, habitus in dorsal view. Pictures by Max Kasparek.