The bees of the genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko

Abstract

The type specimens of the genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775, described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University and in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia), are critically reviewed. Precise information with illustrations of types for 52 taxa is provided; of these 39 species are valid and thirteen are invalid (ten synonyms and three homonyms). Lectotypes are here designated for the following 24 nominal taxa: Andrena acutilabris Morawitz, 1876, A. aulica Morawitz, 1876, A. bicarinata Morawitz, 1876, A. combusta Morawitz, 1876, A. comparata Morawitz, 1876, A. corallina Morawitz, 1876, A. discophora Morawitz, 1876, A. fedtschenkoi Morawitz, 1876, A. initialis Morawitz, 1876, A. laeviventris Morawitz, 1876, A. leucorhina Morawitz, 1876, A. mucorea Morawitz, 1876, A. nitidicollis Morawitz, 1876, A. oralis Morawitz, 1876, A. planirostris Morawitz, 1876, A. ravicollis Morawitz, 1876, A. rufilabris Morawitz, 1876, A. sarta Morawitz, 1876, A. smaragdina Morawitz, 1876, A. sogdiana Morawitz, 1876, A. subaenescens Morawitz, 1876, A. tuberculiventris Morawitz, 1876, A. turkestanica Morawitz, 1876, and A. virescens Morawitz, 1876.

A revision of the Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) fauna of Iran, with the description of 16 new species

“…Comparison with photographs of the type of A. nitidicollis (Astafurova et al 2022) shows that the Iranian specimen is conspecific due to the combination of its completely smooth scutum (completely shagreened in A. pavonia, partially shagreened in A. xera), its truncate labral process that lacks an apical notch (deeply notched in A. palmyriae), scutum with sparse punctures centrally, separated by > 2 puncture diameters (separated by 1-2 puncture diameters in A. schwarzi), broad facial foveae that occupy almost the entire space between the compound eye and the lateral ocellus (occupying ½ to ¾ of this space in all other species), and finally and most importantly, the relatively strongly and deeply punctate lateral parts of T3-4, punctures separated by 1-2 puncture diameters (punctures weaker, sparser, or absent in European Journal of Taxonomy 843: 1-136 (2022) all other species). Its presence in Iran reminiscent of A. longiceps, which has a predominantly Central Asian distribution, but which was recently recorded in Iran for the first time (Radchenko et al 2021).…”