Andrena (incertae sedis) hypopolia Schmiedeknecht, 1884

Wood, Thomas J. & Monfared, Alireza, 2022, A revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Iran, with the description of 16 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 843, pp. 1-136 : 89

91. Andrena (incertae sedis) hypopolia Schmiedeknecht, 1884

Literature records

Morice (1921); Scheuchl & Willner (2016).

Remarks

Morice (1921) lists A. hypopolia Pérez , which is not the correct species authority. This may by a similar situation to that of the type of A. gallica , which was described by Schmiedeknecht but the type material was collected by Pérez in southern France, and hence the type series remained in the Pérez collection in Paris ( Le Divelec 2021). Moreover, the taxonomic situation is highly confused. Warncke treated A. hypopolia as a subspecies of A. numida Lepeletier, 1841 ( Warncke 1967) , but also described taxa such as A. numida albiscopa Warncke, 1967 from Turkey, and used several other names in combination to describe ‘regional’ variation (see map in Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002). It is the opinion of the lead author that all taxa should probably be synonymised under A. numida , and that he observed variation is predominantly one of colouration, not structural variation. For now, A. hypopolia is included on the Iranian list, but this may be subsumed into A. numida following molecular revision.

Distribution

Unclear. Taking a broad concept with all taxa synonymised under A. numida , this taxon has a panMediterranean distribution (see map in Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002).