Megachile analis
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Megachile analis is a species from the genus Megachile ( leaf cutter and mortar bees ) from the order of the hymenoptera .
features
The medium-sized bees are black with yellow-brown to white hair, on the middle back with a black-haired cross band. The scutellum is very raised and shiny. The 10 to 14 mm large females have a larger patch of white, short tomentose hair on the 6th tergite , often also on the edge of the 5th tergite, or are completely white haired. The scopa is red, black on the 6th segment, often also on the 4th and 5th segment. Megachile analis künnemanni is black-brown on the 3rd to 5th tergite, otherwise predominantly yellow-brown hairy.
The 10 to 11 mm large males have white-yellow colored, only slightly broadened fore tarsi .
distribution
Megachile analis is distributed in several boreomontane subspecies from Central and Northern Europe via Central Asia and Siberia to the Pacific coast of East Asia. In Central and Southern Europe , it was found in the middle and high mountains such as the Alps , the Pyrenees , the Cantabrian Mountains , the Sierra Nevada , in the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia .
Way of life
Megachile analis lives solitary like most other leaf cutter bee species. The flight time starts in June and ends in August. The flowers of bell heather , clover , horn clover , sweet peas and bluebells are approached .
Megachile analis nests in the ground, both in sandy soils and in moraine rubble . Strips of birch bark and clippings of birch and oak leaves are used to build the brood cells .
Taxonomy
Since the females of Megachile analis, in contrast to the males, vary in the color of their hair, different subspecies have been described. These are often not justified by other characteristics. The forms described include:
- Megachile analis künnemanni ( Alfken , 1897), Central Europe
- Megachile analis cana ( Alfken , 1930), northern Pamir
- Megachile analis ulangomensis ( Tkalcú , 1988), northwestern Mongolia
- Megachile analis turgensis ( Tkalcú , 1988), Mongolia
- Megachile analis batsumberensis ( Tkalcú , 1988), Mongolia
- Megachile analis angarensis ( Cockerell , 1928), Siberia , outflow of the Angara from Lake Baikal
- Megachile analis chionura ( Cockerell , 1924), Siberia, Kudia
literature
- Manfred Dorn, Dieter Weber: The alfalfa leaf cutter bee and its relatives in Central Europe. Megachile rotundata a. a. In: The New Brehm Library . Volume 582, Ziemsen, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 1988, ISBN 3-7403-0047-7 , p. 86.
- Heinrich Friese : Apidae I. Megachilinae. In: Franz Eilhard Schulze (ed.): The animal kingdom. Friedländer and Son, Berlin 1911, pp. 191–192.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Andreas Werner Ebmer: Hymenopterologische Notes from Austria - 14 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea). In: Linz biological contributions. 33rd volume, issue 1, Linz 2001, pp. 440–443 ( PDF (2 MB) on ZOBODAT ).