Anthophora cincrea ( Friese, 1896 )

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 : 26

Anthophora cincrea ( Friese, 1896)

This taxon was described by Friese as Podalirius cincreus . The name is a misspelling of the Latin adjective cinereus [= grey], referring to the body hair coloration. An original incorrect spelling can be emended, but the emendation would generate a secondary homonym of A. cinerea Eversmann, 1852 , thus creating instability of the system. We therefore prefer to keep the original misspelling cincreus , nevertheless the name is an adjective and must be modified in accordance with the feminine genus gender of Anthophora . For this reason, in the new checklist we use the name Anthophora cincrea ( Friese, 1896) .