{"id":7408,"date":"2026-03-24T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:25:08","slug":"newly-described-osmiine-bee-species-from-the-arabian-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/2026\/03\/24\/newly-described-osmiine-bee-species-from-the-arabian-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly described osmiine bee species from the Arabian Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent paper (M\u00fcller et al., Zootaxa, 5782, 330-346, 2026), three new osmiine bee species from the Arabian desert were described (see species accounts for details): <em>Hoplitis (Hoplitis) heliotropii <\/em>from Saudi Arabia, <em>Hoplitis (Hoplitis) trichodesmae <\/em>from Saudi Arabia and Israel, and <em>Hoplitis (Platosmia) trisinuata<\/em> from Saudi Arabia and Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/2025\/05\/01\/newly-described-osmiine-bee-species-from-europe\/\"> <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent paper (M\u00fcller et al., Zootaxa, 5782, 330-346, 2026), three new osmiine bee species from the Arabian desert were described (see species accounts for details): Hoplitis (Hoplitis) heliotropii from Saudi Arabia, Hoplitis (Hoplitis) trichodesmae from Saudi Arabia and Israel, and Hoplitis (Platosmia) trisinuata from Saudi Arabia and Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1847,1679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-additional-species","category-taxonomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}