Osmia (Osmia) mustelina Gerstaecker, 1869

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 : 59-60

Osmia (Osmia) mustelina Gerstaecker, 1869

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: especially southern Europe to Turkey ( Müller 2021).

Local distribution fig. 13.12

Unpublished records. GBIF 2021, SEMC:

N. Lebanon, Cedern b. Becharré [Bcharre], 1900 m, 3–6.VI.1931, 1♀, det. Zanden G, leg. Zerny.

Literature. Mavromoustakis (1963): Listed under Osmia (Osmia) emarginata Lepeletier, 1841 .

Osmia emarginata does not occur in the south-eastern Mediterranean region ( Müller 2021), and these records are reassigned to O. mustelina . This issue was addressed by Ungricht el al. (2008), and indeed, the taxon is often confused with O. emarginata (Tkalcu, 1971) .

N. Lebanon, Cedars , 30.VI.1960, 3♀, det. & leg. Mavromoustakis G.A.

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Arz Bcharre , 1914 m, 9.V.2017, 4♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU. Additional 21♀ and 3♂ from 16 records between 12.V.2017 and 12.VII.2019 from Bcharre, Jord Tannourine, Hadath El Jebbeh, and Arz Tannourine .

Flower records. Boraginaceae : Anchusa hybrida , Solenanthus stamineus ; Fabaceae : Onobrychis cornuta , Vicia canescens , Vicia tenuifolia ; Geraniaceae : Geranium tuberosum ; Rubiaceae : Galium sp. ; Lamiaceae : Lamium striatum .

This species’ floral preferences as observed by Haider et al. (2013) include Fabaceae and Boraginaceae that are also observed here.

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.