Megachilidae

Balzan, Mario V., Rasmont, Pierre, Kuhlmann, Michael, Dathe, Holger, Pauly, Alain, Patiny, Sébastien, Terzo, Michael & Michez, Denis, 2016, The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4162 (2), pp. 225-244 : 236-238

Megachilidae

Anthidium florentinum (Fabricius 1775)

Determined as Anthidium florentina in Valletta (1979).

Previous Reports: Valletta (1979); Schembri (1982)

Specimens Examined: 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 08-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 16-vi- 1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, Wied il-Għasel, 08-iv-1977, CJ Aquilina [NMNH]; 2♂, Fawwara, 15-v-1988, P Sammut [NMNH]; 1♂, Fiddien, 23-v-2014, P Portelli [NMNH]; 1♂ [NMNH]

Distribution: Continental Europe, Algeria, Middle East and the islands of Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily.

Anthidium manicatum (L., 1758)

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)

Specimens Examined: 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 08-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 12-vi- 1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]); 3♂, Wied il-Għasel, 16-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀ [NMNH]

Distribution: Continental Europe, North Africa, Middle East and the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

Anthidiellum strigatum (Panzer, 1805)

Determined as Anthidellum striuatum (Latreille, 1802). Previous Reports: Schembri (1982)

Distribution: Continental Europe, Maghreb, Middle East and the islands of Cyprus and Sicily.

Heriades crenulata (Nylander, 1856)

Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Specimens Examined: 1♀, 2♂, Għammieri (Ħal Qormi), 23-vi-2014, MV Balzan ; 1♀, Għammieri (Ħal Qormi), 9-vii-2014, MV Balzan ; 1♂, Għammieri (Ħal Qormi), 11-viii-2014, MV Balzan; Distribution: Continental Europe , Maghreb , Western Asia , Sardinia and Sicily .

Heriades rubicola (Pérez, 1890)

Previous Reports: Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Southern Europe, Maghreb, Western Asia, Corsica, Cyprus, Sardinia and Sicily.

Heriades punctulifera (Schletterer, 1889)

Previous Reports: Kuhlmann et al. (2015)

Distribution: Eastern Mediterranean Basin, Italy, the islands of Cyprus and Sicily.

Lithurgus tibialis (Morawitz, 1875)

Previous Reports: Schembri (1982);

Distribution: Southern Europe, Turkey, Israel and Cyprus.

Megachile sicula (Rossi, 1792)

Determined as Chalicodoma sicula (Rossi, 1792) .

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)

Specimens Examined: 2♀, Buskett , 7-iii-1976, P Sammut ; 1♀, Buskett , 11-iv-1976, P Sammut ; 2♀, Ċirkewwa , 15-iv-1976, P Sammut ; 1♀, Buskett , 14-iv-1976, P Sammut ; 4♀, 2♂, Rabat, 15-iv-1988, P Sammut ; 1♀, Fawwara , 15-v-1988, P Sammut ; 1♀, Qattara (Gozo), 13-v-2014, P Portelli;) ; 1♂ [NMNH]

Distribution: Mediterranean Basin

Megachile fertoni (Pérez, 1896)

Previous Reports: Kuhlmann et al. (2015)

Distribution: Southern Europe, Tunisia, Turkey, the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.

Megachile schmiedeknechti (Costa, 1884)

Determined as Megachile xanthopyga (Pérez, 1895) in Valletta (1971) but this is synonymised with M. schmiedeknechti ( Schembri 1982) .

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)

Specimens Examined: 3♀, Ċirkewwa, 16-vi-1976, P Sammut; 1♀, Fawwara, 11-v-1988, P Sammut; 1♀, 1♂, Għar Dalam, 11-viii-2014, P Portelli

Distribution: France, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia.

Osmia rufohirta (Latreille 1811)

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929)

Distribution: Continental Europe, Northwestern Africa, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Osmia caerulescens (Linnaeus, 1758)

Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Continental Europe and Ireland, Northern Africa, Middle East and the islands of Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Osmia frieseana (Ducke, 1899)

Previous Reports: Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Northern Africa, Italy, Spain and Sardinia.

Osmia latreillei (Spinola, 1806)

Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015)

Distribution: Mediterranean Basin, Switzerland and Germany, and the islands of Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Osmia notata (Fabricius, 1804)

Determined as Osmia iosignata (Radoszkowski, 1874) by Valletta (1971) but this is synonymised with O. notata ( Schembri 1982) .

Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015)

Distribution: Western Mediterranean Basin, Northern Africa, the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Osmia tunensis (Fabricius, 1787)

Previous Reports: Kuhlmann et al. (2015)

Distribution: Northern Africa, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Sicily.

Osmia kohlii (Ducke, 1899)

Determined as Osmia rufa kohlii (Ducke, 1899) in Valletta (1971). Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Specimens Examined: 1♀, 1♂, Ħal Għaxaq, 15-iv-2014, MV Balzan; 1♂, Wied l-Aħmar (Comino), 13-v- 2014, P Portelli; 1♂ [NMNH]

Distribution: Southern Italy and Sicily.

Osmia ferruginea (Latreille, 1811)

Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Western Mediterranean Basin, Northern Africa, Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Syria), Greece, Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Osmia submicans (Morawitz, 1870)

Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Ungricht et al. (2008); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Northern Africa, Continental Europe, Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey) and the islands of Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.

Rhodanthidium septemdentatum (Latreille 1809)

Determined as Anthidium septemdentatum (Latreille, 1809) in Valletta (1971). Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982) Distribution: Southern Europe.

Rhodanthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838)

Determined as Anthidium fontanesii (Lepeletier, 1841) by Valletta (1971) and Anthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838) by Schembri (1982) but these are synonymised with R. siculum .

Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)

Specimens examined: 1♂, Addolorata,?/07/1948, collector? [NMNH]; 1♂ NMNH]

Distribution: Western Mediterranean Basin, including Sicily.