Tetralonia inulae Tkalcu , 1979

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

Tetralonia inulae Tkalcu, 1979

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 18BFBDD3-F511-5330-909D-A6F8F4E931F8; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 688 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.815; verbatimLongitude: 9.0791; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2018-06-21; eventRemarks: on Pentanema montanum; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: A90BB22B-D13F-50E4-B790-CC60D6ACEBCD; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 688 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.815; verbatimLongitude: 9.0791; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2018-06-27; eventRemarks: on Pentanema montanum; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 2 females; occurrenceID: E884B698-B18C-59D3-9073-7849B42300F5; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 650 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.8236; verbatimLongitude: 9.0799; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2020-07-01; eventRemarks: on Pentanema spiraeifolium; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 1C024E32-8B16-5895-9C1C-A49720467BEB; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; county: Pavia; municipality: Cecima; verbatimElevation: 647 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.8231; verbatimLongitude: 9.0803; Identification: identifiedBy: Maurizio Cornalba; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-20; eventRemarks: on Pentanema spiraeifolium; Record Level: collectionCode: MCC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Simone Flaminio; sex: 2 males, 2 females; occurrenceID: E75004E1-686D-52A0-BB6F-AF1C967FD006; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Emilia-Romagna; county: Bologna; municipality: Bologna; verbatimElevation: 220 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.4469; verbatimLongitude: 11.3753; Identification: identifiedBy: Simone Flaminio; Event: eventDate: 2022-06-26; Record Level: collectionCode: SFC

Notes

At the Cecima site, T. inulae co-occurs with Tetralonia fulvescens Giraud, 1863 and Tetralonia alticincta (Lepeletier, 1841), the latter flying on average about one month later than T. inulae . We obtained a barcode sequence from one of the specimens of T. inulae from the Cecima site. Only two short (<400 bp) sequences labelled Eucera inulae , both from Canton Ticino in Switzerland, were available in the BOLD data bank for comparison. They turned out to match our sequence at 99.74%. Aside from them, the nearest match for our sequence, at 97.36%, is a GenBank COI sequence (voucher ad98, accession MG251111) pertaining to a specimen from Erzurum, Turkey, determined as Eucera alticincta ( Dorchin et al. 2018). Interestingly, the barcode sequences of two T. alticincta specimens from the Cecima site turned out to be almost identical to the Turkish one mentioned above (match 99.65%), but distant from the few T. alticincta sequences from western Europe available in the BOLD data bank, with matches below 97.5% (Suppl. material 1, Table S1).