Melitta (Melitta) nigricans Alfken, 1905

Özbek, Hikmet & Online, Published, 2014, Distribution data on the family Melittidae (Hymenoptera) of Turkey with considerations about their importance as pollinators, Turkish Journal of Zoology 38 (2), pp. 444-459 : 452

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scientific name	Melitta (Melitta) nigricans Alfken, 1905
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3.3.2. Melitta (Melitta) nigricans Alfken, 1905 View in CoL

Distribution: Widespread in Europe from Portugal to Poland and Orenburg ( Russia). Absent in England and Sweden, one record from Morocco and Argentina ( Warncke, 1973; Michez and Eardley, 2007). In Turkey: Balıkesir ( Warncke, 1973).

Remark: Although M. nigricans is a common species distributed throughout Europe, except for Fenno- Scandinavia, it is very rare in Turkey, known only in Balıkesir ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ).

Plants associated: Michez et al. (2008) gave the family Lythraceae as the host plants of M. nigricans .