Palaearctic Osmiine Bees

Osmia (Hoplosmia) picena (Tkalcu, 1999) has a very restricted geographic distribution. To our present knowledge, it exclusively occurs in mountaineous areas of Central Italy. The species was known so far only in the female sex. On an excursion to the Abbruzzi mountains in August 2010, A. Müller discovered the unknown male.

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