Nomiapis paulyi Wood & Le Divelec, 2022

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

Nomiapis paulyi Wood & Le Divelec, 2022

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Nomiapis paulyi Wood & Le Divelec, 2022: 16 . Holotype ♀; Spain: Segovia , Camino Natural Vía Verde Valle del Eresma, 18.vii.2019, leg. TJWC (RMNH). Barcoded, reference TJW_028, BOLD WPATW767-22.

Some specimens from Corsica and Sardinia have been assigned with doubt to Nomiapis rufiventris that is known from Sicily and north Africa (see Wood & Le Divelec 2022). The recent acquisition of COI sequences of Sardinian specimens supports the assignment of Sardinian records to N. paulyi (Wood, unpublished data).A Corsican specimen from Cavallo Island is also morphologically similar to N. paulyi .

Distribution. Portugal, Spain, Corsica and Sardinia.

Figures

FIGURE 12. A. Nomiapis paulyi Wood & Le Divelec, 2022 male paratype, habitus in lateral view. The species was recently described in Wood & Le Divelec (2022) based on individuals collected in Portugal and Spain. B. N. paulyi male paratype, head in oblique view. Pictures by Paolo Rosa.