Andrena (Brachyandrena) miegiella Dours, 1873

Pisanty, Gideon, Scheuchl, Erwin, Martin, Teresa, Cardinal, Sophie & Wood, Thomas James, 2022, Twenty-five new species of mining bees (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae: Andrena) from Israel and the Levant, Zootaxa 5185 (1), pp. 1-109 : 101

Andrena (Brachyandrena) miegiella Dours, 1873

Distribution: West Mediterranean: Algeria, France, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia; a single Eastern Mediterranean locality is indicated from the Nile delta in Egypt ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002). Grace (2010) mentions this species from Lesbos, Greece, without a reference or specimen data.

Remarks. This species was reported from Israel without specimen data ( Bodenheimer 1937, as A. tingitana Pérez ; Warncke 1969, citing Bodenheimer). We have not seen any specimens or confirmed records from Israel or elsewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. Brachyandrena are difficult to identify, and any unconfirmed records outside the main distributional range should be treated with caution. Unfortunately, Ariana et al. (2009) who revised this subgenus, did not indicate or discuss the exact distribution of A. miegiella .