Andrena (incertae sedis) melaleuca Pérez, 1895

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 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.916.2381
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scientific name	Andrena (incertae sedis) melaleuca Pérez, 1895
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Andrena (incertae sedis) melaleuca Pérez, 1895 View in CoL

Andrena (incertae sedis) melaleuca Pérez, 1895: 175 View in CoL .

Listed by

Wood et al. (2020); Lhomme et al. (2020).

Reason for exclusion

The specimens presented by Wood et al. (2020) were misidentified; their true identity is A. macroptera .

These changes bring the total number of Andrena species known from Morocco to 202, an increase of 22 relative to the baseline of Lhomme et al. (2020) (16 species elevated or newly recorded, 12 species newly described, six species removed). A total of 25 species are currently considered to be endemic with the addition of the species newly described above, though an unknown proportion are likely to also be present in difficult to access and poorly-sampled parts of western Algeria. Three species are now considered not to be endemic to Morocco: A. (incertae sedis) breviceps Wood, 2020 was reported as present also in Algeria (Wood 2021), A. (incertae sedis) laurivora Warncke, 1974 was reported as present also in Spain ( Wood et al. 2021), and A. (Notandrena) hebescens Wood, 2020 is also found in the Canary Islands (Fuerteventura; Ghisbain et al. 2023).

References

Ghisbain G., Rosa P., Bogusch P., Flaminio S., Le Divelec R., Dorchin A., Kasparek M., Kuhlmann M., Litman J., Mignot M., Muller A., Praz C., Radchencko V. G., Rasmont P., Risch S., Roberts S. P. M., Smit J., Wood T. J., Michez D. & Reverte S. 2023. The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila). Zootaxa 5327: 1 - 147. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5327.1.1

Lhomme P., Michez D., Christmann S., Scheuchl E., El Abdouni I., Hamroud L., Ihsane O., Sentil A., Smaili M. C., Schwarz M., Dathe H. H., Straka J., Pauly A., Schmid-Egger C., Patiny S., Terzo M., Muller A., Praz C., Risch S., Kasparek M., Kuhlmann M., Wood T. J., Bogusch P., Ascher J. S. & Rasmont P. 2020. The wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Morocco. Zootaxa 4892 (1): 1 - 159. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4892.1.1

Perez J. 1895. Especes nouvelles de Melliferes de Barbarie. (Diagnoses preliminaires). Gounouilhou, Bordeaux.

Warncke K. 1974. Beitrag zur Kenntnis und Verbreitung der Sandbienen in Nordafrika (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Andrena). Mitteilungen aus dem zoologischen Museum in Berlin 50: 3 - 54.

Wood T. J., Michez D., Cejas D., Lhomme P. & Rasmont P. 2020. An update and revision of the Andrena fauna of Morocco (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Andrenidae) with the description of eleven new North African species. ZooKeys 974: 31 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 974.54794

Wood T. J., Ghisbain G., Michez D. & Praz C. 2021. Revisions to the faunas of Andrena of the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco with the descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 758: 147 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2021.758.1431