{"id":5955,"date":"2020-12-05T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2020-12-05T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:44:27","slug":"nesting-biology-of-osmia-argyropyga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/2020\/12\/05\/nesting-biology-of-osmia-argyropyga\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesting biology of Osmia argyropyga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Osmia (Hemiosmia) argyropyga<\/em> was reported to nest in old brood cells of <em>Megachile<\/em> (<em>Chalicodoma<\/em>) <em>pyrenaica<\/em> Lepeletier (Grandi, 1962), which was assumed to be erroneous in a recent publication (M\u00fcller, Zootaxa, 4778, 201-236, 2020) as such a behaviour strongly deviates from the nesting biology of the closely related and morphologically very similar species <em>O. balearica<\/em> and <em>O. uncicornis<\/em>. This assumption is now supported by observations made by David Genoud, who observed a female of <em>O. argyropyga<\/em> nesting in a self-excavated burrow in loose soil in southern France. The record of <em>O. argyropyga<\/em> from Emilia-Romagna (Italy) given by Grandi (1962) is thus most probably also erroneous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osmia (Hemiosmia) argyropyga was reported to nest in old brood cells of Megachile (Chalicodoma) pyrenaica Lepeletier (Grandi, 1962), which was assumed to be erroneous in a recent publication (M\u00fcller, Zootaxa, 4778, 201-236, 2020) as such a behaviour strongly deviates from the nesting biology of the closely related and morphologically very similar species O. balearica and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}