Twenty New Records of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) for Sardinia (Italy)

• Published in: Insects (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 627
• Main Authors: Nobile, Vittorio, Catania, Roberto, Niolu, Pietro, Pusceddu, Michelina, Satta, Alberto, Floris, Ignazio, Flaminio, Simone, Bella, Salvatore, Quaranta, Marino
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 10.07.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Andrenidae; Apidae; Basins; Bees; Biodiversity; Colletidae; Fauna; Flora; Food plants; Food production; Halictidae; Herbivores; Human nutrition; Islands; Mediterranean; Megachilidae; Mountains; New records; Nutrition; Plant reproduction; Pollinators; Sustainability; Systematics; Taxa; Threatened species; Morocco; United States > US; Europe; Italy; Balearic Islands; North Africa; Corsica; Tunisia; Mediterranean Area; Spain; Halictidae; Andrenidae; Mediterranean; Sardinia; biogeography; fauna; wild bees; Apidae; Colletidae; Megachilidae; distribution; pollinators
• ISSN: 2075-4450; 2075-4450
• DOI: 10.3390/insects12070627

In Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, 316 species of bees are known. Here, for the first time, the following 20 are reported: (Linnaeus, 1761), and Morice, 1904 (Colletidae); Imhoff, 1832, Pérez, 1902, (Linnaeus, 1758), . Pérez, 1903, Stöckhert, 1935, Spinola, 1838, and Pérez, 1895 (Andrenidae); Thomson, 1870 (Halictidae); Morawitz, 1875, (Nylander, 1856), (Jurine, 1807), Spinola, 1838, Pérez, 1884, and (Lepeletier, 1841) (Megachilidae); and Imhoff, 1834, Arnold, 1888, Morawitz, 1875 and (Rossi, 1790) (Apidae). is reported for the first time in Italy.