Palaearctic Osmiine Bees

Brood cells of Hoplitis (Alcidamea) mitis (Nylander, 1852) under a removed stone (left) and female of the same species collecting pollen on Campanula, the species’ exclusive pollen source (right); the brood cells consist of leaf fragments imbricately glued together, forming a cone-like structure. Fotos A. Müller.

The following names cannot be assigned with certainty to taxa among the osmiine bees:

Apis farfarisequa Scopoli, 1763, Entomologia Carniolica, p. 300.-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa globosa (Scopoli) [= Osmia bicornis globosa (Scopoli)] in Warncke (1986: 96).

Apis frontalis Villers, 1789, Caroli Linnaei Entomologia Faunae Suecicae, vol. 3, p. 330.-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa globosa (Scopoli) [= Osmia bicornis globosa (Scopoli)] in Warncke (1986: 98).

Apis fusca Scopoli, 1763, Entomologia Carniolica, p. 303.-Potential synonym of Osmia bicolor (Schrank) in Warncke (1986: 99).

Apis fuscescens Villers, 1789, Caroli Linnaei Entomologia Faunae Suecicae, vol. 3: p. 320.-Potential synonym of Osmia bicolor (Schrank) in Warncke (1986: 99).

Apis hemisphaerica Schrank, 1781, Enumeratio Insectorum Austriae, p. 411.-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa globosa (Scopoli) [= Osmia bicornis globosa (Scopoli)] in Warncke (1986: 100).

Apis lutescens Gmelin, 1790, Caroli a Linné systema naturae [...], edn. 13, vol. 1, p. 2790 [not seen].-Potential synonym of Osmia florisomnis (Linnaeus) [= Chelostoma florisomne (Linnaeus)] in Warncke (1986: 104).

Apis melodes Harris, 1776, Exposition of English Insects, p. 165.-Potential synonym of Osmia ventralis (Panzer) [= Osmia leaiana (Kirby)] in Warncke (1986: 105).

Apis pusilla Christ, 1791, Naturgeschichte der Insekten, p. 160 [not Fabricius, 1781].-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa globosa (Scopoli) [= Osmia bicornis globosa (Scopoli)] in Warncke (1986: 108).

Apis rufipes Christ, 1791, Naturgeschichte der Insekten, p. 161.-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa globosa (Scopoli) [= Osmia bicornis globosa (Scopoli)] in Warncke (1986: 110).

Apis strenuus Harris, 1776, Exposition of English Insects, p. 164.-Potential synonym of Osmia rufa (Linnaeus) [= Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus)] in Warncke (1986: 111) [not Harris, 1776, p. 131, which refers to Bombus proteus Gerstaecker [= Bombus soroensis proteus Gerstaecker] according to Dalla Torre (1896: 514) or Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus) according to Warncke (1986: 111)]

Apis tacitus Harris, 1776, Exposition of English Insects, p. 165.-Potential synonym of Osmia ventralis (Panzer) [= Osmia leaiana (Kirby)] in Warncke (1986: 112).

Apis tumidus Harris, 1776, Exposition of English Insects, p. 165.-Potential synonym of Osmia florisomnis (Linnaeus) [= Chelostoma florisomne (Linnaeus)] in Warncke (1986: 113).

Apis unicornis Christ, 1791, Naturgeschichte der Insekten, p. 160.-Potential synonym of Osmia florisomnis (Linnaeus) [= Chelostoma florisomne (Linnaeus)] in Warncke (1986: 113).

Apis ventralis Panzer, 1798, Faunae Insectorum Germanicae, 56: 20.-Combination Megachile ventralis (Panzer) in Dalla Torre (1896: 451). Combination Osmia ventralis (Panzer) [= Osmia leaiana (Kirby)] in Warncke (1988a: 30). See also Özbek and Zanden (1992a: 27) and Schwarz et al. (1996: 123).

Heriades gasperinii Schmiedeknecht, in: Gasperini, 1890, Annuario Dalmatico, 5: 63.-Potential synonym of Chelostoma mocsaryi Schletterer in Zanden (1990: 52). See also Westrich (2006).

Heriades sinuata Spinola, 1808, Insectorum Liguriae, vol. 2, p. 59.-Potential synonym of a Megachile species based on the original description.

Osmia atricapilla Curtis, 1828, British Entomology, vol. 5, [no.] 222.8. Type material: Holotype f, [United Kingdom].-Potential synonym of Osmia nigriventris (Zetterstedt, 1838) in Tkalcu (1995: 140). See Tkalcu (1995: 140).

Osmia interrupta Latreille, 1811, Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes, vol. 8: 583. Type material lost.-Potential synonym of Anthocopa anceyi (Pérez, 1879) [= Hoplosmia anceyi (Pérez)] in Zanden (1988b: 128). See also Zanden (1994b: 1114).

Osmia micro-gramma Dours, 1873, Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliqué, ser. 3, 1: 297. Type material lost.-Potential synonym of Anthocopa croatica (Friese, 1893) [= Hoplosmia croatica (Friese)] in Tkalcu (1974a: 123). See also Zanden (1994b: 1114).

Osmia scorpia Vachal, 1910, Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 10: 178. Type material lost.-Potential synonym of Hoplitis quadrispina (Tkalcu, 1992) in Zanden (1994b: 1117).

Osmia sicula Dalla Torre & Friese, 1895, Entomologische Nachrichten (Berlin), 21: 72. NOMEN NOVUM for the preoccupied Osmia minuta Destefani, 1887 [not Osmia minuta Bramson, 1879]. Type material lost.-Potential synonym of a Protosmia species in Zanden (1988b: 129).

Pseudosmia parva Radoszkowski, 1874, Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 48: 158. Type material: f(f), “Frauenfeld” [Switzerland?].-NOMEN DUBIUM based on the poor description and the unclear origin.

† Apiaria dubia Germar, 1849, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (Berlin), 1, 66. Compression fossil. Upper Oligocene. Orsberg (Bonn, Germany).-Combination Osmia dubia (Germar) in Giebel (1856: 182), accepted by Handlirsch (1906-1908), but generic determination questioned by Zeuner and Manning (1976: 186).