Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) politum (Schenck, 1853)

Vertommen, Win, Vanormelingen, Pieter, D’Haeseleer, Jens, Wood, Thomas J., Baugnée, Jean-Yves, Blanck, Tim De, Grave, David De, Rycke, Samuel De, Deschepper, Chantal, Devalez, Jelle, Feys, Simon, Foubert, Olivier, Jacobs, Maarten, Janssen, Kobe, Legrain, Benjamin, Molenberg, Jean-Marc, Pauly, Alain, Pasau, Bernard, Reynaerts, Annie, Verheyen, Stefan, Wallays, Henk, Wielandts, Maarten & Vereecken, Nicolas J., 2024, New and confirmed wild bee species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) for the fauna of Belgium, with notes on the rediscovery of regionally extinct species, Belgian Journal of Entomology 149, pp. 1-64 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16958242
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scientific name	Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) politum (Schenck, 1853)
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Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) politum (Schenck, 1853) View in CoL

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Small (4.5 mm) Lasioglossum species with an outstanding box-shaped head which therefore resembles L. glabriusculum (Morawitz, 1872) . The first tergite is however completely shiny and without punctures. Males do not have this striking shape of the head and are therefore more challenging to identify. Diagnosis and keys in PAULY (2021).

DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE: From Israel to northern Germany and from France ( PAULY & BELVAL, 2017) to Ukraine. Also reported in Kyrgyzstan and Japan ( SCHEUCHL & WILLNER, 2016). There are no records from the United Kingdom ( ELSE & EDWARDS, 2018), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( HERRERA MESÍAS & WEIGAND, 2021) and the Netherlands ( REEMER, 2018; www. waarneming.nl).

EU RED LIST STATUS: Least concern (LC) ( NIETO et al., 2014)

ORIGIN OF RECORDS:

- HAINAUT PROVINCE. Spiennes; 9♀♀; 22.vii.2020; leg. E. Ruelle; coll. UMons; det. T. J. Wood. Records published in FIORDALISO et al. (2022) .

- NAMUR PROVINCE. Vresse-sur-Semois; 2♂♂; 24.vii.2022; leg./coll. M. Wielandts; det. M. Wielandts, W. Vertommen. Found on Angelica sylvestris ( Apiaceae ).

COMMENTS:

- Historical records of this species are all from Sint-Pietersberg. The species was not recorded in Belgium since 1971.