Anthophora dufourii Lepeletier, 1841

Cornalba, Maurizio, Quaranta, Marino, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Gamba, Sirio, Mei, Maurizio, Bonifacino, Marco, Cappellari, Andree, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Tempesti, Stefano & Biella, Paolo, 2024, Exploring the hidden riches: Recent remarkable faunistic records and range extensions in the bee fauna of Italy (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 116014-116014 : 116014

Anthophora dufourii Lepeletier, 1841

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Marco Bonifacino; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: C0512017-6BFB-5B71-8767-215FBB18893C; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Liguria; county: Savona; municipality: Dego; verbatimElevation: 460 m; verbatimLatitude: 44.4571; verbatimLongitude: 8.3441; Identification: identifiedBy: Marco Bonifacino; Event: eventDate: 2020-05-06; Record Level: collectionCode: MBC

Notes

There are very few literature records of A. dufourii from Italy, all very old ( Comba 2019 and references therein). The species has been found in Liguria in the past: in the Sagemehl collection of the University of Tartu Natural History Museum, there is a female specimen from Sanremo without collection date, but in all evidence collected over 100 years ago (record accessible at https://elurikkus.ee/generic-hub/occurrences/429ad39e-d12c-4b24-af8e-c24e175aad07?lang=en). Images: Suppl. material 2, Figs. S13-S15.