Dufourea alpina Morawitz, 1865

Bossert, Silas, 2014, The high alpine bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Zillertal Alps, Austria, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1115-1115 : 1115

Dufourea alpina Morawitz, 1865

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: on Leontodonhispidus; recordedBy: S. Bossert; individualCount: 5; sex: 5 males; Location: country: Austria; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 2117 m; decimalLatitude: 47.028291; decimalLongitude: 11.822605; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch; eventDate: 07-04-12; habitat: alpine meadow / tall forb meadow Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: on Leontodon sp.; recordedBy: S. Bossert; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; Location: country: Austria; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 1980 m; decimalLatitude: 47.019336; decimalLongitude: 11.807515; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch; eventDate: 07-05-12; habitat: alpine meadow Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: on Phyteuma sp.; recordedBy: S. Bossert; individualCount: 1; sex: 1 female; Location: country: Austria; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 2120 m; decimalLatitude: 47.028004; decimalLongitude: 11.822377; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch; eventDate: 07-08-12; habitat: alpine meadow / dwarf shrub community Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: on Leontodon sp.; recordedBy: S. Bossert; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 females; Location: country: Austria; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 2004 m; decimalLatitude: 47.022352; decimalLongitude: 11.814313; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch; eventDate: 07-09-12; habitat: alpine meadow Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: on yellow flowering Cichorioideae; recordedBy: S. Bossert; individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; Location: country: Austria; stateProvince: Tyrol; locality: Zemmgrund ; verbatimElevation: 2381 m; decimalLatitude: 47.036318; decimalLongitude: 11.828558; Event: samplingProtocol: manual catch; eventDate: 07-10-12; habitat: alpine meadow

Distribution

Dufourea alpina occurs in the Pyrenees and in the European Alps. Further it has been reported from the Balkan Peninsula ( Ebmer 1988).

Notes

Together with Panurginus montanus , Dufourea alpina was probably the most common solitary bee species during the investigation period. Especially the males can easily be recognized since they often take shelter in flowers as mentioned in Amiet and Krebs (2012).