Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) longiceps ( Friese, 1899 )

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4820441

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) longiceps ( Friese, 1899 )
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Protosmia (Chelostomopsis) longiceps ( Friese, 1899) View in CoL

Distribution: EAST MEDITERRANEAN ( Müller 2021).

Local distribution 13.16

Unpublished records. GBIF 2020, SEMC:

Mount Lebanon, Monteverde nr Mansourieh, 350 m, 24.IV.1995, 1♀; 5.IV.1996, 1♂, all det. Baker D. leg. Roche C.G.

Literature. Friese (1899): 2 females from Lebanon (no locality details), type material, Berlin .

Listed under Chelostoma longiceps Friese, 1899

Mavromoustakis (1955): S. Lebanon: Djezzine [Jezzine], 20.V.1953, 3♀, 8♂ (type material), det. & leg. Mavromoustakis G.A.

Material examined. Beirut: 19. III .1909, 2♀, leg. Schmiedeknecht, coll. NMSF .

Bekaa: Kefraya, Horch El Kaser , 992 m, 9.IV.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU .

Mount Lebanon: Arsoun, VII.2015, 3♀, leg. Nemer N.; coll. TCFNR .

N. Lebanon: Donnieh , Wadi Cehennem, 924 m, 30.V.2012, 1♀, leg. Kasparek M., coll. MKAS; Horch Ehden, 1567 m, 19.VI.2016, 1♀, leg. Yammine W., coll. MBOU. Additional 12♀ and 13♂ from 14 records, collected between 6.IV.2017 and 7.VI.2019, from Tannourine El Tahta, Horch Ehden, Qadisha Valley, Bcharre, Horch Ehden, and Hadath El Jebbe .

Flower records. Asteraceae : Centaurea eryngioides , Reichardia sp. , Serratula pusilla ; Boraginaceae : Solenanthus stamineus ; Fabaceae : Coronilla emeroides ; Geraniaceae : Geranium sp.

This species is polylectic (Müller 2017) on several families including Fabaceae , Asteraceae , Lamiaceae , and Caryophyllaceae . A preference for Fabaceae and Asteraceae is also observed in the records above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Megachilidae

Genus

Protosmia

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