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Issue: Vol. 5346 No. 5: 21 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.5.4
Page range: 567-580
Abstract views: 220
PDF downloaded: 18

DNA barcoding confirms the validity of Anthidium melanopygum Friese, 1917 stat. nov. (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) as a distinct species of Western Asia

Mönchhofstr. 16; 69120 Heidelberg; Germany
T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station—Nature Reserve of RAS—Branch of A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS; Nauki str. 24; Kurortnoye vill.; 298188 Feodosiya; Crimea
Hymenoptera solitary bees taxonomy Palaearctic region

Abstract

Heinrich Friese described Anthidium spiniventris [sic] from Palestine in 1899, and A. melanopygum as a “variety” of it from Turkey in 1917. While A. melanopygum was subsequently recognized as a subspecies of A. spiniventre, a morphological examination of new material of both taxa suggests that these taxa represent distinct species. This was also confirmed by genetic barcoding of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene, which revealed the two taxa form distinct clades with an average genetic distance of 5.69%, while the genetic within-group distance of these two taxa was only 0.14% for A. melanopygum and 0% for A. spiniventre. Anthidium melanopygum has a wide distribution that extends from Greece and Bulgaria in the west across Turkey and Iran to Turkmenistan in the east. By contrast, A. spiniventre has a restricted, disjunct distribution with isolated populations in the southern Levant and Iran.

 

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