Stelis (Stelis) murina Pérez, 1884

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 : 60

Stelis (Stelis) murina Pérez, 1884

This taxon was treated as subspecies of Stelis phaeoptera ( Kirby, 1802) by Warncke (1992c) and others, but was re-established as a valid species by Baker (1999). Recorded from several (mainly southern) European countries, although not all records are clearly separated from S. phaeoptera (see Kasparek 2015). The subspecies Stelis (Stelis) murina cretica Mavromoustakis, 1963 was described from Crete ( Mavromoustakis 1963).

Distribution. Spain (including Canary Islands), France, Italy, Croatia, and Greece. Outside Europe, it occurs in northern Africa. Occurrence in Cyprus needs confirmation ( Varnava et al. 2020).

Species overlooked in the previous European checklists