Anthophora (Pyganthophora) rubricrus Dours, 1869

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 (Pyganthophora) rubricrus Dours, 1869

The type series of Anthophora rubricrus from Greece was destroyed during the WWI bombing of the museum of Amiens ( France). Only one species is likely to correspond to A. rubricrus Dours which is found in Syros today, and therefore corresponds with the type locality (J. Devalez, pers. comm.). However, without type material and reliably identified specimens from the taxon author, we consider Anthophora rubricrus a species inquirenda and remove it from the present checklist.