Nomada guttulata Schenck,1861
Synonyms
Nomada rufilabris THOMSON 1870
Distribution
Southern England, with records from South Devon, Dorset (Mortimer 1908; The Natural History Museum London), South Hampshire (Else 1995; M. Edwards, pers. comm.), East Sussex, East Kent (Butterfield 1921), Berkshire, Surrey (D B Baker, pers. comm.), London (Perkins 1917) and Essex (Beaumont 1903; P. Harvey, pers. comm.). A rare species with few recent records. (The record for Yorkshire by J.T. Burn (1975) is based on a misidentification of Nomada flavoguttata.). Widely distributed in Europe. It has also been reported from Japan.
Status (in Britain only)
Listed as Endangered (RDB1) by Shirt (1987) and Falk (1991).
Habitat
It shares the same habitat as its Andrena host: for example, open woodland and grassland.
Flight period
Univoltine; early May to June.
Pollen collected
This species is cleptoparasitic and so does not collect pollen
Nesting biology
A cleptoparasite of the mining bee Andrena labiata (Perkins 1919a, Butterfield 1921, Westrich 1989), though considerably rarer than this species and absent from most of its nesting sites.
Flowers visited
Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.), germander speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) and silverweed (Potentilla anserina).
Parasites
None reported.
Year profile last updated
Profile written: 2005
Updated: 22/12/2011