Halictus subauratus

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Rossius, 1792

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Considered extinct in Britain.

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Stelis odontopyga

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Noskiewicz, 1926

Announced as new to Britain in 2019. A species account will be added in due course.

Reference: Mike Edwards, Grant Hazlehurst and Ivan Wright (2019) Stelis odontopyga Noskiewicz (Hymenoptera: Megachilinae) New to Britain. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 32 pp 43-47

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Stelis odontopyga

Andrena nana

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(Kirby, 1802)

It should be noted that the name Andrena nana has occasionally been misapplied in the older literature (e.g. Smith, 1855; Saunders, 1896) and in some collections, being a misidentification for A. semilaevis Pérez.

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This species is known in Britain from just five records: East Suffolk, Barham (Kirby, 1802), female, the type of the species, collected pre-1802; West Suffolk, Sudbury, 1923, female, B.S. Harwood (Perkins, 1924) (in Natural History Museum, London); West Kent, Luddesdown, 27th August 1899, female, H. Elgar (Felton, 1963) (in Maidstone Museum); West Kent, Eynesford, 27th April, 1930, male (in Natural History Museum, London) and Surrey, Oxshott, July 1915, male, collector not known (in Oxford University Museum). As the most recent record was made more than eighty years ago, it is highly likely that the species is now lost from the British fauna.

This is a Western Palaearctic species, distributed from Sweden and Estonia to Spain, east to Sardinia, Italy, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Also known from North Africa (Morocco to Tunisia) (Osytshnjuk, 1977; Gusenleitner & Schwarz, 2002; Ascher & Pickering, 2012).

Status (in Britain only):

Listed in Shirt (1987) as Endangered (RDB1) and revised to “believed extinct” by Falk (1991). This bee is almost certainly extinct as a British species.

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No information available.

Flight period:

Bivoltine. The spring brood flies from late April to early June, the summer one from mid July to late August.

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Widely polylectic, visiting flowers in the families Aceraceae, Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Rosaceae and Scrophulariaceae (Westrich, 1989).

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In mainland Europe the species nests predominantly in steppe biotopes (Kocourek, 1966).

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There are no records for Britain.

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Andrena nana

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No data available.

Author of profile:

G.R. Else.

Map compiled by: G R Else and S P M Roberts.

Year profile last updated:

2018

Species Acccount References 2019

All the references given in the species account pages up to Atlas 10 - 2019.

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Hedychrum nobile

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(Scopoli, 1763)

A Jewel-Wasp new to Britain and distinct from H. niemelai Linsenmaier

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Hedychrum nobile

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Hedychrum nobile new to Britain..pdf

NEW: Sussex Bees and Wasps Recording Group

James Power reports: "We’ve formed a Sussex Bees and Wasps Recording Group, with the aim of sharing knowledge and skills and exploring different habitats and locations across both East and West Sussex. We have a number of site visits planned for 2019, and we’d love to hear from anyone interested in joining us. If you’d like to find out more, please get in touch with James Power at jamesmbuna@gmail.com

Ammophila campestris

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Latreille, 1809

Many old records and ecological notes attributed to this species have to be treated with caution due to confusion between this species and the very similar A. pubescens Curtis.

Distribution:

Old records purporting to be of this species from the British mainland are referable to A. pubescens. This species is only known from the Channel Islands (Jersey), but there are no recent records.

Abroad, it occurs across Europe to China and Korea in the east.

Status (in Britain only):

The Channel Islands are, for a number of reasons, excluded from the geographical coverage of the British Red Data book (Shirt, 1987) and the subsequent review (Falk, 1991).

Habitat:

No data available for the Channel Islands. In general, species of the genus are associated with dry, sandy areas.

Flight period:

The literature sources for Europe cite May to September.

Prey collected:

Ammophila campestris preys exclusively on larvae of sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae (Lomholdt, 1984).

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No data available with certainty, due to the earlier confusion with A. pubescens.

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Ammophila campestris

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No data available.

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No data available.

Author of profile:

A Knowles.

Map compiled by: A Knowles and S P M Roberts.

Year profile last updated:

2018

Tachysphex psammobius

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(Kohl, 1880)

This species is not covered by Lomholdt (1984), since it is not a Fenno-Scandinavian species.

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In the British Isles only known from the Channel Islands, and not seen there recently.

It occurs throughout central and southern Europe, through Turkey, Kazakhstan to Siberia (Dollfuss, 1991), with Bitsch et al. (2001) adding the USA.

Status (in Britain only):

The Channel Islands are, for a number of reasons, excluded from the geographical coverage of the British Red Data book (Shirt, 1987) and the subsequent review (Falk, 1991).

Habitat:

No data available.

Flight period:

Dollfuss (1991) gives May to August for continental examples.

Prey collected:

Kurczewski (1987), in America, notes the collection of very small grasshoppers.

Nesting biology:

No data available for the British Isles. Kurczewski (1987) states that a short tunnel is excavated with a terminal cell in which up to 11 prey items are stored.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Tachysphex psammobius

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No data available.

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No data available.

Author of profile:

A Knowles.

Map compiled by: A Knowles and S P M Roberts.

Year profile last updated:

2018

Pollinator Monitoring Scheme Newsletter issued

The January 2019 PoMs Newsletter is available here

Aporinellus sexmaculatus

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(Spinola, 1806)

An all black species, the abdomen, particularly in the female, with paired spots of silvery-grey pubescence. The posterolateral projections on the propodeum distinguish it immediately from most other British species.

Distribution:

In the British Isles this species is restricted to the Channel Islands.

Overseas it occurs from Europe across to central Asia and in north Africa (Wolf, 1972).

Status (in Britain only):

The Channel Islands are, for a number of reasons, excluded from the geographical coverage of the British Red Data book (Shirt, 1987) and the subsequent review (Falk, 1991).

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Occurs in open sandy habitats, especially on dunes.

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Day (1988) cites records only for June, but suggests it is likely to be active in July and August. It has been recorded on the northern French coast in early September (pers. obs.).

Prey collected:

No British data. Gros (1983) recorded a salticid in France, and Wiśniowski (2009) lists several salticid genera as well as Philodromidae and Thomisidae.

Nesting biology:

This species is fossorial, digging short burrows in the sand. The spider is paralysed prior to nest construction.

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Aporinellus sexmaculatus

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No data available.

Author of profile:

G A Collins.

Year profile last updated:

2019

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