Nomiapis rufiventris (Spinola, 1838)

Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5327 (1), pp. 1-147 : 55-56

Nomiapis rufiventris (Spinola, 1838)

This taxon is now considered to be a distinct species from Nomiapis bispinosa (Brullé, 1832) ( Wood & Le Divelec 2022) . It was previously referred to as Nomiapis unidentata albocincta (Lucas, 1849) but at least two taxa ( N. rufiventris and N. paulyi ) have been confused under this name.

Distribution. Italy (Sicily). Some populations from eastern Spain and the Balearic Islands require further investigations. According to new molecular data (COI), specimens mentioned from Sardinia and Corsica can be assigned with confidence to N. paulyi (see above). Outside Europe known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

Species recorded in Europe after 2017