Andrena curiosa

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: Warnckandrena
Species: Andrena curiosa

Name

Andrena (Warnckandrena) curiosa (Morawitz, 1877: 60–62)

• Type locality: Sevan (Armenia).
• Lectotype: ZISP INS_HYM_0000202, ♂, designated by Astafurova et al., 2021: 74 [probably the types are lost].

Synonymy

• Melitta curiosa Morawitz, 1877: 60–62 [org. comb.]
  • Melittoides curiosus (Morawitz) — Friese 1921: 177.
  • Andrena (Melittoides) curiosa (Morawitz) — Warncke 1968: 45.
  • Andrena (Warnckandrena) curiosa (Morawitz) — Pisanty & Wood, 2024: 459

Native distribution areas

Israel, Jordan, Syria, Greece (Aegean Islands), Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia (Dagestan), Iran.

References

Primary references

• Morawitz, F. 1877. Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna Caucasiens. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 14(1): 3–112. Reference page.  [original description: p. 60–62]

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: p. 74, Figs 68a–e]
• 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.  [annotated faunal list, new records (Iran): p. 72]
• Pisanty, G. & Wood, T.J. 2024. The early-diverging subgenera of the bee genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) in the Old World. Zootaxa 5474(5): 451–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.5.1. . Reference page.  [p. 459, figs. 1–9, 27–29, 37, 42, 44–46]