Andrena (Notandrena) fulvicornis Schenck, 1853

Wood, Thomas J., 1942, Revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Bulgaria and North Macedonia with description of three new species, Belgian Journal of Entomology 117, pp. 1-39 : 23-24

64. Andrena (Notandrena) fulvicornis Schenck, 1853 *

DISTRIBUTION. Because of historical synonymy with A. nitidiuscula (see NOTE), the exact distribution of A. fulvicornis is unclear. However, it is likely to be found across central Europe, southern Europe (where it is the dominant taxon of the two), North Africa and the Levant (the only one of these two taxa present in this region), and into Turkey ( SCHMID-EGGER & DOCZKAL, 1995; SCHWENNINGER, 2013; HAZIR et al., 2014; WOOD et al., 2020b).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. BULGARIA: • 1♂, 7 km NE Hristo, Danovo, 1160 m, 15.vi.2017, leg. Barták & Kubik, OÖLM; • 1♀, Galata , 19.vii.1979 , leg. O. Tkalců, OÖLM; • 1♀, Neseber [Nessebar], 20.vii–5.viii.1965 , leg. Z. Pédr, OÖLM; • 1♂, Rhodope , Galabovo, 10.vi.1997 , leg. A. Zaykov, OÖLM; • 1♂, Sandanski , 16.vii.1966 ; • 1♀, 18.v.1979, both leg. Kocourek, OÖLM; • 1♀, Slanĉev Brjag [Sunny Beach], 20.vii–5.viii.1965 , leg. Z. Pédr; • 2♀, 28.vi–14.vii.1971,

leg. Z. Pédr; • 1♂, 18–30.v.1989, leg. J. Halada, all OÖLM; • 1♂, Trakia, Proslav, 10.vii.1997 , leg. A. Zaykov, OÖLM ;

NORTH MACEDONIA: • 1♀, Lake Dojran, 10.vii.1968, leg. Z. Pédr , OÖLM.

NOTE. The status of A. fulvicornis has been unclear until relatively recently when it was removed from synonymy from A. nitidiuscula Schenck, 1853 ( SCHMID-EGGER & DOCZKAL, 1995; see also SCHWENNINGER, 2013). It is bivoltine, whereas A. nitidiuscula is univoltine and flies only in the summer. Andrena fulvicornis is the more southerly of the two species, and dominates in warmer more Mediterranean environments, and was correspondingly more frequently encountered in Bulgarian material (see entry for A. nitidiuscula below). It is also newly recorded for North Macedonia *.