Andrena lusitania Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez, 2022

Wood, Thomas James, 2023, Revisions to the Andrena fauna of north-western Africa with a focus on Morocco (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 916 (1), pp. 1-85 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.916.2381
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0DC587F6-9DAA-4F6E-BA2A-AD528990BA24
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10471008
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scientific name	Andrena lusitania Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez, 2022
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This species was described from south-western Spain and central Portugal, where it flies early in the season in March and April ( Wood & Ortiz-Sánchez 2022; Wood 2023). A single female specimen was collected from the Col du Zad in the Middle Atlas at an elevation of 2100 m (full collecting details below). The Moroccan specimen differed from the barcode sequence generated from the holotype male of A. lusitania (IBIHM998-21) by just 0.72%. The presence of A. lusitania in the Middle Atlas further reinforces the ecological link between Iberia and the Middle Atlas as seen here for Euandrena and Micrandrena , as well as other Andrena lineages ( Wood 2023).

Material examined

MOROCCO • 1 ♀; Fès-Meknès, Tiguelmamine , Col du Zad ; 2100 m a.s.l.; 21 May 2022; T.J. Wood leg.; BOLD: WPATW696-22 ; TJWC .

Distribution

Portugal, Spain, Morocco * ( Wood 2023).

References

Wood T. J. & Ortiz-Sanchez F. J. 2022. Description of three new Andrena Fabricius, 1775 species from understudied parts of Iberia (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Boletin de la Sociedad entomologica aragonesa 70: 114 - 123.

Wood T. J. 2023. The genus Andrena in the Iberian Peninsula: revisionary taxonomy, ecology, new species, and a key to their identification (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 241 - 484. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 96.101873