Camptopoeum friesei

Camptopoeum friesei is a species of bees of the genus Camptopoeum.[2]

Camptopoeum friesei
Camptopoeum friesei Neusiedl am See, Burgenland, Austria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Andrenidae
Genus: Camptopoeum
Species:
C. friesei
Binomial name
Camptopoeum friesei
Mocsary, 1894
Synonyms[1]
  • Panurgus friesei (Mocsáry, 1894)
  • Camptopoeum friesei subinterruptum (Alfken, 1934)
  • Camptopoeum friesei intermedium (Alfken, 1934)
  • Camptopoeum friesei disparile (Alfken, 1934)

Description

The species is 6–10 mm in size, the hairs of the male are long and dense, those of the female short and tight.[3]

Range

Central Asian-Eastern European. From Spain, southern and eastern Europe, Ukraine and southern Russia to Bashkiria and across Asia Minor and the Caucasus to western Turkmenistan and western Kazakhstan; northward to Eastern Austria and Slovakia, south to Lazio, Crete and the south coast of Turkey. In central Europe exclusively in the Lacken area of the Seewinkel area (Burgenland, Austria).[4]

Habitat

Camptopoeum friesei occurs in salt steppes from the lowlands to the colline altitude level.[4]

Ecology

Flight period is in one generation from July to September. Camptopoeum friesei is oligolectic on Asteraceae of the subfamily Carduoideae, mainly Centaurea and Carduus. When it comes to the nesting substrate, Camptopoeum friesei is extremely specialized. It only nests in salty, alternately moist soda soils (Solontschak soils), which e.g. occur in the area around Lake Neusiedl. It usually forms nest aggregations. Camptopoeum friesei is being parasited by the cuckoo bee Parammobatodes schmidti.[4]

Etymology

Dedicated to the German apidologist Heinrich FRIESE (1860-1948).[4]

References
  1. " Camptopoeum friesei". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. "Camptopoeum friesei". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  3. Westrich, Paul 1947- (2019). Die Wildbienen Deutschlands. ISBN 978-3-8186-0881-1. OCLC 1190164412.
  4. Erwin., Scheuchl (2016). Taschenlexikon der Wildbienen Mitteleuropas : alle Arten im Porträt. ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5. OCLC 1041414212.


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