Andrena (Chlorandrena) leucolippa Pérez, 1895

Wood, Thomas James, Praz, Christophe, Selis, Marco, Flaminio, Simone, Mei, Maurizio, Cornalba, Maurizio, Rosa, Paolo, Divelec, Romain Le & Michez, Denis, 2023, Revisions to the Andrena fauna of Italy, with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Fragmenta entomologica 55 (2), pp. 271-310 : 284

Andrena (Chlorandrena) leucolippa Pérez, 1895

Remarks. Wood (2023a) clarified the relationship between A. leucolippa and A. boyerella Dours, 1872 , restricting A. leucolippa to Europe and A. boyerella to North Africa and Sicily. Comba (2019) lists A. leucolippa for Italy [species 39], citing Ascher & Pickering (2015) and Kuhlmann et al. (2015), whilst also noting that confirmation for Italy would be appropriate. These listings may simply be the result of taxonomic confusion between A. boyerella and A. leucolippa , and we have not examined any specimens of A. leucolippa s. str. from Italy, but as for A. hystrix , we consider it highly plausible that A. leucolippa is present in Liguria. Warncke et al. (1974) using the combination A. boyerella ssp. leucolippa gave distributional points for south-eastern France around Nice. Targeted searches in the extreme western part of Liguria may confirm its presence in Italy, and we retain it on the list as a plausible species.