Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990 )

Müller, Andreas, 2015, Palaearctic Hoplitis bees of the subgenus Platosmia (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species, Zootaxa 3936 (1), pp. 71-81 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6100760
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scientific name	Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990 )
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Hoplitis (Platosmia) alchata ( Warncke, 1990) View in CoL

Osmia (Platosmia) alchata Warncke, 1990: 489 View in CoL . Type material: Holotype ♀, “ 20 km SO Harran/Urfa, 23.5.1983 ” ( Turkey), Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz.

New records. IRAN: Teheran province, Sorkheh Hesar National Park, 24.5.2009. SYRIA: 50km S of Homs, 24.5.1996; Palmyra, 12.4.2004.

Distribution. From southernmost Turkey to central Syria and eastwards to northern Iran. Pollen hosts. Possibly oligolectic on Reseda (Resedaceae) and possibly also closely related genera: all eight pollen loads (3 localities, 3 countries) analysed so far exclusively consisted of Reseda pollen. Nesting biology. Several females were observed to nest in a limestone stone of about 0.5m height ( Warncke, 1990). Nesting material unknown.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Megachilidae
Genus	Hoplitis