Andrena (Melandrena) albopunctata Andrena (Melandrena) albopunctata (Rossi, 1792), Female

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CAB is an image database of Central bees based on the Central Asian Bee Project by the Kyushu University (Head Investigator: O. Tadauchi). The expedition was conducted nine times in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan and Xinjiang Uygur, China from 2000 to 2004 and from 2012 to 2014. It includes images taken with the cooperation of the Department of Hymenoptera, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, and the Biology Centre in Linz, Austria as well as based on our Central Asian Bee Collection in Kyushu University. Our project is named "Field Studies of Wild Bee Fauna and Pollination Biology for Combating Desertification and Planting Campaign in Asian Arid Areas". The aims of the project are as follows: l) To search and discover useful pollinating insects in semidesert areas, 2) To collect wild bees in semidesert areas and to conduct taxonomic and biogeographical studies, and 3) To study pollinating and nesting behaviors of the useful bees and 4) to suggest preservation strategies for useful insects.

The related database and URL are as follows:

BEECAsia (A specimen database based on the bees collected in Central Asia by the Kyushu University Expedition) (http://konchudb.agr.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/beecasia/)

Report of a Central Asian Bee Project (in Japanese) (http://konchudb.agr.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/xcabproject/)

CAB (Central Asian Bees) is a species information database mainly based on Central Asian bees, including images. Each record is composed of 12 items, namely family, genus and species (or subspecies) scientific names, distribution, sex of the type, type locality, type depository, source of the original description, synonymies, references, notes and images.

The CAB database is managed by a text database management system SIGMA.

The CAB database is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (Head Investigator: Osamu Tadauchi) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

The data on the genus Andrena (Family Andrenidae) is open to the public at present. The use of data in this database is free of charge for academic study or educational purposes.



Items of Data

Data and Tags are the Following 12 items.

1. (FTAX) family (scientific name, including subfamily name)
2. (GTAX) genus (scientific name, including subgenus name)
3. (STAX) species (scientific name, including subspecies)
4. (DST) distribution (Japan inland; overseas)
5. (TYPE) type (sex)
6. (TYPEL) type locality
7. (TYPED) depository of the type
8. (DESC) source of the original description
9. (SYN) synonymies
10. (REF) references
11. (NOTE) notes
12. (IMG) Images

Example of a Record

(FTAX) Andrenidae
(GTAX) Andrena (Plastandrena)
(STAX) bimaculata (Kirby, 1802)
(DST) Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Trukmenistan, Kaukasus, Iran, Iraq, Asia Minor, European Russiua, Europe, North Africa
(TYPE) male
(TYPEL)  
(TYPED) Natural History Museum London
(DESC) Melitta bimaculata Kirby, 1802, (nec Andrena bimaculata Lepeletier 1841 nec Andrena bimaculata Xu 1994) Monogr. apum Angl., 2: 115
(SYN) Andrena decorata Smith, 1847, Zoologist, 5: 1667; Andrena conjuncta Smith, 1847, Zoologist, 5: 1744; Andrena articulata Smith, 1847, Zoologist, 5: 1750; Andrena vitrea Smith, 1847, Zoologist, 5: 1737; Andrena consobrina Eversmann, 1852, (nec Andrena consobrina Schenck 1861) Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 25: 30; Andrena vitreipennis Costa, 1861, Fauna Regno Napoli, Andrenidae: 16; Andrena mystacea Dours, 1861, Cat. rais. Hym. Dep. Somme 1: 20; Andrena intermedia Morawitz, 1870, (nec Andrena intermedia Thomson 1870) Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 7: 321; Andrena Moravitzi Thomson, 1872, Hymen. Scandin., 2: 78; Andrena morawitzi nom.nov. f?r Andrena Moravitzi Thomson, 1872; Andrena atrorubricata Dours, 1872, Revue Mag. Zool., (2) 23: 358; Andrena aulica Morawitz, 1876, In Fedtschenko, Izv. imp. Obshch. Ljubit. Estest. Antrop. Etnog.: 187; Andrena comparata Morawitz, 1876, In Fedtschenko, Izv. imp. Obshch. Ljubit. Estest. Antrop. Etnog.: 188; Andrena Melanura Morawitz, 1877, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 14: 82; Andrena Paveli Schmiedeknecht, 1883, Apid. Europ. 1: 541; Andrena Magrettiana Schmiedeknecht, 1884 [Bestimmungstab. 1883] Apid. Europ. 1: 699; Andrena germabica Radoszkowski, 1893, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 27: 56; Andrena vitrea var. tenebrosa Gribodo, 1894, Boll. Soc. ent. ital., 26: 119; Andrena atrorubricata var. concolor Alfken, 1914, (nec Andrena mariae var. concolor Robertson 1898 nec Andrena helvola var. concolor Bl?thgen 1919) M?m. Soc. ent. Belg., 22: 209; Andrena bimaculata var. mondaensis Friese, 1922, Konowia 1: 210; Andrena bimaculata var. serotinella Friese, 1922, Konowia, 1: 210; Andrena morawitzi var. hirtella Friese, 1922, Konowia 1: 211; Andrena tibialis var. tricolorata Friese, 1922, Konowia 1: 212; Andrena florea var. clavipes Friese, 1924, (in Friese & Schulthess 1924) Konowia, 2(1923): 281; Andrena bl?thgeni E. Stoeckhert, 1930, In Schmiedeknecht, Hymen. Nord- Mitteleurop.: 910, 960; Andrena bimaculata ssp. oligotricha Mavromoustakis, 1952, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (12) 5: 834; Andrena gaetula Benoist, 1961, Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. phys. Maroc, 41: 89; Andrena bimaculata ssp. lichata Warncke, 1967, Eos, Madr., 43: 230.
(REF) Smith, Zoologist, 5: 1667, 1737, 1744, 1750, 1847; Eversmann, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 25: 30, 1852; Morawitz, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 7: 321, 1870; Morawitz, In Fedtschenko, Izv. imp. Obshch. Ljubit. Estest. Antrop. Etnog.: 187, 188, 1876; Morawitz, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 14: 82, 1877; Radoszkowski, Hor. Soc. ent. Ross., 27: 56, 1893; Stoeckhert, In Schmiedeknecht, Hymen. Nord- Mitteleurop.: 910, 960, 1930; Popov, Ent. Obozr., 30: 403, 1949; Popov, Trudy vses. ent. Obshch., 46: 128, 129, 130, 1958; Osytshnjuk, Fauna Ukraini, 12 (5): 103, 106, 110, 1977; Osytshnjuk, Opred. Faune SSSR, 119: 317, 323, 1978; Xu & Tadauchi, Bull. biogeogr. Soc. Japan, 51 (1): 5, 1996; Schmid-Egger & Scheuchl, Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und ?sterreichs. Bd. III: Andrenidae: 22, 23, 94, 95, 1997; Dylewska, Keys for the identification of Polish Insects, XXIV Hymenoptera, Teil 68d Apidae, Andreninae: 42, 43, 2000; Gusenleitner & Schwarz, Entomofauna, suppl, 12: 130, 983, 2002; Tadauchi, Esakia, 48: 3, 2008. Other references: See Gusenleitner & Schwarz, Entomofauna, suppl, 12, 2002.
(NOTE)  
(IMAGE) Female Male

Andrena (Plastandrena) bimaculata, Female Photo taken by M. Shebl

Andrena (Plastandrena) bimaculata, Male Photo taken by M. Shebl

Acknowledgements

The images of the bee specimens in the CAB database were taken with the cooperation of the Department of Hymenoptera, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and the Biology Centre in Linz, Austria as well as based on our Central Asian Bee Collection in Kyushu University. We are thankful to the late Prof. Yuri A. Pesenko and Dr. Yulia Astafurova (Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) and Director Fritz Gusenleitner (Biology Centre, Linz) and Mr. Maximilian Schwarz (Ansfelden, Austria) for their assistance. Data were cited from the following reference.

Gusenleitner, F. & M. Schwarz, 2002. Weltweite Checkliste der Bienengattung Andrena mit Bemerkungen und Erganzungen zu palaarktichen Arten (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Andrenidae, Andrena). Entomofauna, suppl, 12: 1-1280.



References

Shebl, M. A. and O. Tadauchi, 2009. The genus Andrena from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) (3). Esakia, (49): 21-62.

Tadauchi, O. 2005. Field studies on wild bee fauna and pollination biology for combating desertification and planting campaigns in Asian arid areas: A report for the year 2000 to 2004. Esakia, (45): 1-8.

Tadauchi, O., 2006. The genus Andrena from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan collected by the Kyushu University Expedition (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) (1). Esakia,(46): 1-19.

Tadauchi, O., 2006. Bees in Asia. pp. 41-69. A series of Asia in Kyushu University 7. Insects in Asia. Kyushu University Press. Fukuoka. (In Japanese)

Tadauchi, O., 2008. The genus Andrena from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) (2). Esakia, (48): 1-18.

Tadauchi, O., 2015. Wild Bees for Combating Desertification and Planting Campaigns in Asian Arid Areas. In Sustainable Environmental Conservations in Desertifying Areas in East Asia -Research Institute of East Asia Environment of Kyushu University Library VI- (Ed. Combatting Desertification Group), Hana Shoin, Fukuoka, 203 pp. (in Japanese)

Tadauchi, O., R. Miyanaga & A. Dawut, 2005. A new species belonging to the subgenus Euandrena of the genus Andrena from Xinjiang Uygur, China with notes on nest structure (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). Esakia, (45): 9-17.



Copyright Notice

Entomology Database Project Group (Head: O. Tadauchi, Editors: O. Tadauchi, K. Mitai, Photos: O. Tadauchi, Mohamed Shebl, System administrator: H. Inoue, F. Kamitomo) holds the copyright on the entomology database CAB.


Inquiries and Comments

Inquiries and Comments about CAB Should be sent to the Following E-mail Address.

Database CAB (Osamu Tadauchi, Satoshi Kamitani)
Entomological Laboratory,
Faculty of Agriculture,
Kyushu University
Fukuoka, 812-8581
Japan
E-mail: tadauchi@kyudai.jp
E-mail: kamitani@agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp

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