Andrena aulica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Apoidea

Familia: Andrenidae
Subfamilia: Andreninae
Genus: Andrena
Subgenus: Plastandrena
Species: Andrena aulica

Name

Andrena (Plastandrena) aulica Morawitz, 1876: 187

• Type locality: Tajikistan, Panjakent.
• Lectotype: MGU, ♀ (Collection of F. Morawitz) [designated in Astafurova, Proshchalykin & Sidorov, 2022: 105].

Synonymy

• [synonymized with Andrena (Plastandrena) bimaculata (Kirby 1802) – controversial – Warncke (1967: 179) and Gusenleitner & Schwarz (2002: 130) regarded it synonym while Popov (1949), Osytshnjuk et al. (1978) and Astafurova et al. (2021) regarded A. aulica as a valid species]
  • Andrena (Plastandrena) bimaculata aulica (Morawitz) [see Wood & Monfared, 2022: 66]
• Andrena melanura Morawitz, 1877: 80 [see also Andrena bimaculata]
  • Type locality: Tsaghkadzor (Armenia).
  • Lectotype: ZISP INS_HYM_0000238, ♀, designated by Astafurova et al., 2021: 39.

Native distribution areas

Russia (European part), Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, India.

References

Primary references

• Morawitz, F. 1876. Pchely (Mellifera) [Bees (Mellifera)]. In: A travel to Turkestan by the member-founder of the society A.P. Fedtschenko accomplished from the Imperial society of naturalists, anthropologists, and etnographists on a commission from the general-governor of Turkestan K.P. von Kaufmann. Issue 13. Vol. II. Zoogeographical Investigations. Pt V. (Division 7). St. Petersburg, Moscow, pp. 161–303 + pls. 1–3. [in Russian] [original description: p. 187]

Additional references

• Astafurova, Y.V., Proshchalykin, M.Yu., Sidorov, D.A. & Osytshnjuk, A.Z.(†) 2021. The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution IV. Family Andrenidae, genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775, species described by F. Morawitz. Zootaxa 5037(1): 1–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5037.1.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page.  [types of Andrena melanura: p. 39, Figs 33a–e]
• Astafurova, Yu.V., Proshchalykin, M.Yu. & Sidorov, D.A. 2022. The bees of the genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko. Zookeys 1120ː 105–176. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1120.90206 Reference page.  [lectotype, remarks: p. 105]
• Wood, T.J. & Monfared, A.R. 2022. A revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Iran, with the description of 16 new species. European journal of taxonomy 843: 1–136. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.843.1947 . Reference page.  [(as Andrena (Plastandrena) bimaculata aulica) annotated faunal list, records (Iran): p. 66]