Ancyla (Ancyla) stolli Friese, 1922

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 86-87

Ancyla (Ancyla) stolli Friese, 1922

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Scattered record in Levant and Iran ( Rasmont & Dehon 2014). Literature. Warncke (1979): Reported from Beirut, 1912.

NOMADINI

Genus Nomada Scopoli, 1770

16 species.

This understudied and taxonomically challenging genus in the southern part of the West Palaearctic is probably one of the most species rich genera present in Lebanon because of the high species richness of their principal hosts, the Andrena . Future thorough revision of Lebanese Nomada material is likely to substantially increase the number of species present. Based on the ratio of Nomada to Andrena in Portugal (3:5; Baldock et al. 2018, Wood et al. 2020b) and Morocco (2:5; Lhomme et al. 2020), we estimate a likely Lebanese species richness of between 34–52 species.