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Osmia (Helicosmia) niveata

Description

Osmia (Helicosmia) niveata (Fabricius, 1804)

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC (Müller 2021).

Local distribution fig. 13.13

Literature. Mavromoustakis (1956): Listed under Osmia (Chalcosmia) fulviventris albiscopa Alfken, 1914.

Mount Lebanon, Ain el Arar, 24.V.1953, 1♀, l ♂; Beirut, 9.V.1953, 1♀, all det. & leg. Mavromoustakis G.A.

Material examined. Mount Lebanon: Chammis, Wadi Cheber, 373 m, 26.IV.2019, 1♀, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU.

N. Lebanon: Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain El Raha, 900 m, 5.V.2017, 4♀, 1♂; Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain El Raha, 900 m, 11.V.2017, 5♀; Tannourine El Tahta, Al Mahbase, 893 m, 5.V.2019, 1♀, 1♂, all leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU.

S. Lebanon: Saidoun, 25. III.2018, 1♀; 27.IV.2019, 1♀, all leg. Baghdadi A., coll. SOILS.

Flower records. Asteraceae: Carduus argentatus.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018

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References

  • Muller, A. (2021) Palaearctic Osmiine Bees, ETH Zurich. Available from: http: // blogs. ethz. ch / osmiini (accessed 12 April 2021)
  • Mavromoustakis, G. A. (1956) On the bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of Lebanon - Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 9 (107), 853 - 862. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935608655905