Megachilidae

Balzan, Mario V., Rasmont, Pierre, Kuhlmann, Michael, Dathe, Holger, Pauly, Alain, Patiny, Sébastien, Terzo, Michael & Michez, Denis, 2016, The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4162 (2), pp. 225-244 : 238

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:66A27020-42C5-4170-B137-C54296B21F8C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075176
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D639CC5C-2F06-4A60-C9FB-71C61C69CD5B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Megachilidae
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Osmia (Osmia) tricornis (Latreille 1811)

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929)

Distribution: West Mediterranean Basin, Corsica, and Sardinia.

Osmia tricornis has often been confounded with closely related O. kohlii , which occurs in Malta and Sicily. However, these two species show an allopatric distribution ( Müller, 2015).

Megachile argentata (Fabricius, 1793)

Previous Reports: Valletta (1971)

Distribution: Algeria, Hungary

The species M. argentata has often been confounded with Megachile leachella (Curtis, 1828) ( Schwarz and Gusenleitner 2011) , but the latter has not been recorded from the Maltese Islands. M. leachella is present in Continental Europe and North Africa.