New records for the bee fauna of Iran (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
- 3 December 2013
- journal article
- insecta
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Zoology in the Middle East
- Vol. 59 (4), 319-325
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2013.868134
Abstract
In a survery of the bee fauna of Horand forests in East Azerbaijan province of Iran during 2008 and 2009, 46 species belonging to the families Anthophoridae, Halictidae and Megachilidae were identified. Eight species are new to the fauna of Iran: Evylaeus albipes (Fabricius, 1781), E. corvinus (Morawitz, 1878), E. israelensis (Ebmer, 1974), Seladonia desertorum (Morawitz, 1876), Heriades crenulatus Nylander, 1856, Hoplitis anthocopoides (Schenck, 1853), H. manicata (Morice, 1901) and H. rufohirta (Latreille, 1811).Keywords
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