Palaearctic Osmiine Bees

The female lectotype of Osmia nuda Friese, 1899 is a dwarfish individual of Osmia rufohirta Latreille 1811; thus O. nuda is a junior synonym of O. rufohirta (A. Müller, unpublished).

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