Andrena (Vellandrena) etesiaca Warncke, 1975

Pisanty, Gideon & Wood, Thomas James, 2024, The early-diverging subgenera of the bee genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in the Old World, Zootaxa 5474 (5), pp. 451-488 : 483

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.5.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3DDAA7F0-27D0-43E8-AAFB-E56F0E24FB3F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12710380

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/077587FD-B86E-640B-FF6C-D893EA21F852

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scientific name

Andrena (Vellandrena) etesiaca Warncke, 1975
status

stat. nov.

Andrena (Vellandrena) etesiaca Warncke, 1975 View in CoL stat. nov.

( Figs. 91–93 View FIGURES 89–99 , 101, 103, 105, 107 View FIGURES 100–107 )

Andrena (Truncandrena) bassana ssp. etesiaca Warncke, 1975: 44 View in CoL , ♀ ♂ [ Turkey: OLML].

Andrena (Truncandrena) bassana ssp. etesiaca Warncke View in CoL : Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002: 116–117.

Distribution: Central Turkey ( Hazir et al. 2014).

Flight period: May–June ( Warncke 1974; Hazir et al. 2014).

Flower records: None.

Pollen preferences: Unknown. Based on the highly similar female morphology, we assume that the species is polylectic, by analogy to A. bassana .

Genetic sequences available: None.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: HOLOTYPE: TURKEY • ♀; Sultanahani [Sultanhanı]; 22 May 1970; K. Warncke leg.; OLML .— PARATYPES: TURKEY • 2♂; Amasia [Amasya]; 1860; OLML .

Remarks. Warncke (1975) described this taxon as a subspecies of A. bassana occurring in Turkey. Unfortunately, we could not locate any females for study other than the holotype, and the distinguishing female characters mentioned by Warncke (finer body punctation, more strongly depressed tergal marginal zones) did not seem convincing. However, Erwin Scheuchl has examined additional A. etesiaca females from Turkey, and found that they clearly differ from A. bassana sensu stricto by possessing an impunctate midline raised like a keel on the apical margin of the clypeus, as well as weaker tergal hair bands (E. Scheuchl, personal communication). The males of A. etesiaca exhibit much clearer differences from A. bassana s.s., as they have a partly yellow clypeus, a narrower gena and stronger and denser tergal punctation. Our measurements also indicate that compared to A. bassana s.s., flagellomere 1 of A. etesiaca is slightly shorter in both sexes. We do not know of any records of Vellandrena from central and northern Syria or from Lebanon, despite recent collecting efforts in the latter country ( Boustani et al. 2021). The distributions of A. bassana s.s. and A. b. etesiaca therefore appear to be disjunct, and together with the distinct morphological differences in males, we consider this information sufficient to elevate A. b. etesiaca to species status.

OLML

Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Andrenidae

Genus

Andrena

Loc

Andrena (Vellandrena) etesiaca Warncke, 1975

Pisanty, Gideon & Wood, Thomas James 2024
2024
Loc

Andrena (Truncandrena) bassana ssp. etesiaca

Gusenleitner, F. & Schwarz, M. 2002: 116
2002
Loc

Andrena (Truncandrena) bassana ssp. etesiaca

Warncke, K. 1975: 44
1975
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