Osmia (Hoplosmia) scutellaris Morawitz, 1868

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 : 61

Osmia (Hoplosmia) scutellaris Morawitz, 1868 *

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Eastern Europe, Mediterranean basin, and east to Iran ( Müller 2021).

Local distribution fig. 13.14

Unpublished records. GBIF 2021, SEMC:

Unknown location, label indicates Libanon [ Lebanon], 1900, 1♂, det. Zanden G, leg. Schmiedeknecht O.

Mount Lebanon, Monteverde, 350 m, 21.V.1994, sex unspecified, determiner unspecified, leg. Roche C.G.

Material examined. Mount Lebanon: Maaser Al Chouf, 1143 m, 29.V.2019, 2♀, 2♂, leg. Boustani M.; 1364 m, 29.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU .

N. Lebanon: Ehden , Ehden Forest, 1567 m, 19.VI.2016, 1♀, leg. Yammine W. ; Qadisha Valley , 950, 5.V.2017, 1♀, 1♂, leg. Nemeth T. ; Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain El Raha , 900 m, 3.V.2017, 2♂, leg. Boustani M. ; 5.V.2017, 1♀, 1♂, leg. Boustani M. ; 11.V.2017, 2♀, 4♂, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta, Al Mahbase , 893 m, 5.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M. ; Hadath El Jebbe, Al Fouar , 1529 m, 31.V.2019, 6♂, leg. Boustani M. ; Arz Tannourine , Trail 4, 1781 m, 3.VI.2019, 1♀, leg. Boustani M. , all coll. MBOU.

Flower records. Asteraceae : Anthemis pauciloba , Asteriscus sp. , Carduus argentatus ; Fabaceae : Vicia tenuifolia ; Lamiaceae : Stachys cretica .

Recorded floral preferences are from Asteraceae , mainly Chichorioidea ( Müller 2018).We do have mostly Asteraceae genera in the records above, but also Fabaceae and Lamiaceae flowers.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Local distribution maps of material examined and literature of 1 Lasioglossum truncaticolle, 2 Lasioglossum villosulum, 3 Heriades truncorum, 4 Hoplitis pallicornis, 5 Osmia aurulenta, 6 Osmia bicornis, 7 Osmia caerulescens, 8 Osmia difficilis, 9 Osmia dimidiata, 10 Osmia distinguenda, 11 Osmia melanogaster, 12 Osmia mustelina, 13 Osmia niveata, 14 Osmia scutellaris, 15 Osmia submicans, 16 Protosmia longiceps.