Andrena (Brachyandrena) pinguis, Ariana, Scheuchl, Tadauchi & Gusenleitner, 2009

Wood, Thomas J. & Monfared, Alireza, 2022, A revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Iran, with the description of 16 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 843, pp. 1-136 : 105-106

140. Andrena (Brachyandrena) pinguis Ariana, Scheuchl, Tadauchi & Gusenleitner, 2009 *

Material examined

IRAN • 55 ♂♂; Azer. e Garbi. Prov. [West Azerbaijan Province], Serou ; 1650 m a.s.l.; 28 May 2010; Mi. Halada leg.; OÖLM • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Kuh Gol, near Sisakht ; 2500 m a.s.l.; 9 Jun 2010; Mi. Halada leg.; OÖLM • 1 ♂; Fars Province, Komehr ; 2380 m a.s.l.; 9 Jun 2010; Mi. Halada leg.; OÖLM .

RUSSIA • 1 ♀; Сталингр. обл. [Stalingrad obl. = Volgograd Oblast], Тингута [ Tinguta ]; 5 Aug. 1952; Г. Викторов leg. [G. Viktorov]; OÖLM .

TURKEY • 1 ♀; Mardin; 1000 m a.s.l.; 2 Jul. 1987; R. Hensen leg.; RMNH • 1 ♂, 25 ♀♀; Burdur, 20 km SW of Burdur; 940 m a.s.l.; 7 Jul. 2006; M. Halada and M. Kadlecová leg.; OÖLM .

Remarks

The presence of this species in southern Russia is surprising, as it was not reported from Russia in the recent revision of the subgenus ( Ariana et al. 2009a). What is more surprising is that the collecting locality of Tinguta is the locus typicus for Andrena (Brachyandrena) limonii Osytshnjuk, 1983 , the holotype of which is a female from Volograd reg., Tinguta, 13 Aug. 1954, leg. Razumova (see Osytshnjuk 1983b; Osytshnjuk et al. 2005). The specimen examined here was found in boxes of undetermined material at Linz that were part of the Warncke collection. It was part of a series of specimens of various species that were collected by the Russian entomologists G. Viktorov, D. Panfilov, and L. Zimina. These specimens were borrowed by Warncke from the Zoological Museum of Moscow University (Y. Astafurova pers. comm.) at some point and never identified.

The specimen itself perfectly matches material of A. pinguis from Turkey and Iran, and the two taxa cannot be confused, as A. pinguis has the mesepisternum coarsely areolate, whereas it is smooth in A. limonii . Ariana et al. (2009a) did not examine the female type (in the Moscow State University collection), but they did examine a male from the locus typicus collected 3 Aug. 1954, leg. Razumova, which would therefore not be a paratype, unless this is a typographical error and the specimen was collected on 13 Aug. 1954, in which case it would be part of the type series (see Osytshnjuk 1983b for details of paratypes). The holotype should be examined to ensure that it corresponds to A. limonii sensu Ariana et al., though given the strong morphological differences it seems more likely that the two taxa simply (though unexpectedly) occur in sympatry.

Distribution

Russia *, Turkey, Iran * ( Ariana et al. 2009b).