Rhodanthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838)

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Rhodanthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Simone Flaminio; sex: 5 males, 3 females; occurrenceID: D453F8A2-E28A-5D68-9DEA-0494610D210E; Location: countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Calabria; county: Crotone; municipality: Cutro; verbatimLatitude: 38.9397; verbatimLongitude: 16.9622; Identification: identifiedBy: Simone Flaminio; Event: eventDate: 2022-04-21; Record Level: collectionCode: SFC

Notes

This appears to be the first record of R. siculum for continental Italy (Fig. 1 B). The species was previously known in Italy only from Sicilia ( Kasparek 2019).

Figures

Figure 1. Known Italian range and new records of (A) Colletes acutus Perez, 1903, Andrena compta Lepeletier, 1841, Rhodanthidium sticticum (Fabricius, 1787) and (B) Andrena binominata Smith, 1853, Rhodanthidium siculum (Spinola, 1838).