Osmia (Pyrosmia) nana Morawitz, 1874

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 60

Osmia (Pyrosmia) nana Morawitz, 1874

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe, Caucasus, Levant, Turkestan, possibly Algeria ( Müller 2021).

Unpublished records. GBIF 2021, SEMC:

Mount Lebanon, Monteverde nr Mansourieh, 350 m, 4.IV.1994, 1♂, determiner unspecified, leg. Roche C.G. ; 5.IV.1996, 1♀, det. Baker D., leg. Roche C.G.

Literature. Benoist (1934): Under the name Osmia tetrodonta Benoist, 1934

The paper provides the description of the species that has later been synonymised with O. nana (Zanden, 1985) . Locality mentioned as “Asie Mineure, Betmeri” [Mount Lebanon, Beit Meri], 1♂, leg. Pérez J.

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Horch Ehden , Nabeh Jouit, 1346 m, 24.IV.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta, Mar Boutrous, 1207 m, 5.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., Rasmont P., all coll. MBOU .