Nomada flavopicta (Kirby, 1802)

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

Nomada flavopicta (Kirby, 1802)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Roberto Catania; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: 63DE8D2F-31AB-5391-A04C-10141BA382A3; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicilia; county: Catania; municipality: Randazzo; locality: Lago Gurrida; verbatimElevation: 850 m; verbatimLatitude: 37.8539; verbatimLongitude: 14.8997; Identification: identifiedBy: Roberto Catania; Event: eventDate: 2020-08-25; Record Level: collectionCode: RCC

Notes

Our record from the NW slope of Mount Etna appears to be the first for Sicilia. Two of the hosts of N. flavopicta , namely Melitta leporina (Panzer, 1799) and M. tricincta Kirby, 1802, occur on Mount Etna ( Nobile and Tomarchio 1997).