Andrenidae
Creators: name: Balzan, Mario V.
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
name: Dathe, Holger
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Patiny, Sébastien
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Michez, Denis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae

description: Andrenidae
Andrena agilissima (Scopoli, 1770):
Determined as Andrena flessae (Panzer, 1805) by IHH Yarrow in NMNH collection but this is synonymised with A. agilissima (see Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002)
Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015):
Examined Specimen: 1♀ [NMNH]
Distribution: Continental Europe and Northern Africa, and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, and the Balearic Islands.
Andrena miegiella (Dours,1873)
Previous Reports: Schembri (1982)
Distribution: Mediterranean basin including the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.
Andrena aff. leucophaea (Lepeletier, 1841)
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971)
Distribution: Algeria, Spain, Sicily and the Balearic Islands.
Andrena binominata (Smith, 1853)
Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Western Mediterranean Basin, Sicily and the Balearic Islands.
Andrena nigroolivacea (Dours, 1873)
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Western Mediterranean Basin, Croatia and Greece, and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the Balearic Islands.
Andrena bicolor (Fabricius, 1775)
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Kuhlmann et al. (2015)
Distribution: widespread in the western Palaearctic, including Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Andrena impunctata (Pérez, 1895)
Determined as Andrena impunctata ssp. contusa in Schembri (1982).
Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015)
Distribution: Continental Europe, Northern Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt), Middle East (Israel, Lebanon, Turkey), Corsica, Sicily, and the Balearic and Canary Islands. Bees found in Israel into North Africa are referred as to A. i. contusa (Warncke 1980).
Andrena decipiens (Schenck, 1861)
Previous Reports: Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Continental Europe, North-western Africa (Morocco, Algeria), Sicily.
Andrena bimaculata (Kirby, 1802)
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Kuhlmann et al. (2015)
Distribution: widespread in the western Palaearctic, including Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East.
Andrena pilipes (Fabricius, 1781)
Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)
Examined specimens: 2♂, Għajn Rihana, 25-v-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, Wied il-Għasel, 08-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, Wied il-Għasel, 12-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, Wied il-Għasel, 22-vi-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 26-VI-1969, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♂, Buskett, 26-III-1970, C De Lucca [NMNH]; 1♀, 1♂, Wied il-Għasel, 14-II-1976, P Sammut [NMNH]; 1♀, 1♂, Għadira, 7-IV- 1 976, P Sammut [NMNH]; 1♀, Imtaħleb, 28-IV-1976, P Sammut [NMNH];
Distribution: widespread in Continental Europe. Recorded from Algeria, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.
Andrena tibialis (Kirby, 1802)
Previous Reports: Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: widespread in Continental Europe.
Andrena morio Brullé, 1832
Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: widespread in Europe and Northern Africa.
Andrena nigroaenea (Kirby, 1802)
Previous Reports: Alfken (1929); Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Widespread in Europe and Northern Africa.
Andrena savignyi (Spinola,1838)
Previous Reports: Schembri (1982)
Distribution: Northern Africa, Italy and Corsica.
Andrena cyanomicans (Pérez, 1895)
Previous Reports: Kuhlmann et al. (2015)
Distribution: North-western Africa, Portugal and Spain, and Israel and Jordan.
Andrena flavipes Panzer, 1799
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Kuhlmann et al. (2015) Distribution: Widespread in Europe and Northern Africa.
Panurgus siculus (Morawitz, 1871)
Determined as Panurgus dentipes siculus (Morawitz, 1871) but this is synonymised with P. s i c u l u s (Patiny 2001).
Previous Reports: Valletta (1971); Schembri (1982)
Examined Specimens: 13♀, 2♂, Ħal Għaxaq, 15-iv-2014, MV Balzan; 2♀, MV Balzan; 1♂, Għar Lapsi (Siġġiewi), 5-v-2014, Balzan.
Distribution: Central Mediterranean Basin (Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Southern Italy).
description: Published as part of Balzan, Mario V., Rasmont, Pierre, Kuhlmann, Michael, Dathe, Holger, Pauly, Alain, Patiny, Sébastien, Terzo, Michael & Michez, Denis, 2016, The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Maltese Islands, pp. 225-244 in Zootaxa 4162 (2) on pages 228-229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/255739