Andrena (Micrandrena) djelfensis 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 : 290

Andrena (Micrandrena) djelfensis Pérez, 1895

Remarks. Listed by Comba (2019) [species 75], citing Comba & Comba (1991) and Kuhlmann et al. (2015). Andrena djelfensis is restricted to Spain, Portugal, south-western France, and north-western Africa. Confusion arises because of the work of Warncke who initially reported A. tomora Warncke, 1975 as A. djelfensis because the females of these two species are extremely similar. The male genital capsules are however very different, as Warncke later realised ( Warncke 1975a). However, this mistake persists in his distribution maps ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002), with points from Italy, the Balkans, and western Turkey which are referable to A. tomora . We have examined no specimens of the true A. djelfensis from Italy, and so do not consider it to be present. The sole Italian dot on the map of Gusenleitner & Schwarz (2002) occurs over Lazio, where A. tomora can be found.

Material examined ( Andrena tomora )

ITALY: LAZIO: 3♂, 1♀, Albano ( Roma ), 5 May 1984, leg. G.G.M. Schulten ( RMNH) ; 1♀, idem, 16 Jun 1984 ( RMNH) . CAMPANIA: 1♀, N of Napoli, Capalbio env. [precise locality not found], 4 Jun 2018, leg. J. Halada ( OÖLM) . CALABRIA: 1♂, Serra San Bruno , 22 Apr 2022, leg. S. Flaminio ( SFCC) .