Andrena (Truncandrena) noacki Alfken, 1935

Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin, Martin, Teresa, Cardinal, Sophie & Wood, Thomas James, 2022, Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant, Zootaxa 5185 (1), pp. 1-109 : 75-77

Andrena (Truncandrena) noacki Alfken, 1935 sp. resurr.

( Fig. 179 )

Andrena noacki Alfken, 1935

Andrena oulskii noacki: Warncke 1967

Andrena oulskii Radoszkowski, 1867 : Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2001, 2002

Distribution: Turkey.

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

Material examined: HOLOTYPE: TURKEY: Ankara, 1.vi.1934, A. Seitz (♀) ( SMFM) ; PARATYPES: TURKEY: same as holotype (2♀) ( ZMHB) .

Remarks. Members of the Truncandrena with orange tarsi have been greatly confused; Warncke adopted a lumping approach and united most taxa (as subspecies) under either A. minapalumboi Gribodo or A. oulskii Radoszkowski. Subsequent authors have reinstated some of these names such as A. delphiensis Warncke ( Greece, Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002) or simply used them as good taxa ( Hazir et al. 2014). Though confused ( Schuberth et al. 2001), the use of the name A. oulskii was stabilised as a Truncandrena species by Wood (2021b). It is therefore necessary to reinstate the taxa A. noacki and A. ochraceohirta Alfken from their Warncke baseline of synonymy with A. oulskii and A. minapalumboi ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002) . These changes bring the taxonomic baseline into line with current use of these names and concepts ( Hazir et al. 2014).

Andrena noacki has dark terga and complete hair bands on terga 1–2 ( Fig. 179 ), whereas A. oulskii has redmarked terga ( Fig. 181 ), and in A. ochraceohirta sp. resurr. and A. oulskii the hair bands on terga 1–2 are always interrupted ( Figs. 180–181 ). The latter character is independent of the age of the specimen, as fresh A. ochraceohirta never have complete hair bands on terga 1–2, so it is not the result of abrasion. Andrena noacki is currently known only from the Central Anatolian plateau of Turkey, and is therefore isolated from A. ochraceohirta in the southern Levant.

Figures

FIGURES 179–187. Andrena (Truncandrena) noacki Alfken sp. resurr., holotype. 179. female metasoma. Andrena (Truncandrena) ochraceohirta Alfken sp. resurr., holotype. 180. female metasoma. Andrena (Truncandrena) oulskii Radoszkowski, holotype. 181. female metasoma. Andrena (Truncandrena) petrae sp. nov. 182. female habitus, 183. female head, 184. female vertex and mesosoma, 185. female metasoma, 186. male habitus, 187. male head.