Stelis (Pseudostelis) minima (Schenck, 1859)

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 : 40-41

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16958242
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scientific name	Stelis (Pseudostelis) minima (Schenck, 1859)
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Stelis (Pseudostelis) minima (Schenck, 1859) View in CoL

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Very small Stelis species (3-5 mm) that is hard to distinguish from S. minuta (Lepeletier & Serville, 1825) . Both sexes mostly have white spots on the sides of the first terga and are more sparsely punctated in comparison to other Stelis species. Entirely black specimens are not unusual.

HOST SPECIES: Chelostoma campanularum (Kirby, 1802) and C. distinctum (Stoeckhert, 1929) are the most probable hosts ( KASPAREK, 2015; WESTRICH, 2018).

DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE: Found both in Central Europe and around the Baltic sea ( KASPAREK, 2015). Does not occur in the Iberian Peninsula and large parts of Southern Europe ( SCHEUCHL & WILLNER, 2016). No records from the United Kingdom ( ELSE & EDWARDS, 2018) and France ( KASPAREK, 2015), but it has been found in Germany ( SCHEUCHL & WILLNER, 2016), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( HERRERA MESÍAS & WEIGAND, 2021) and the Netherlands ( REEMER, 2018).

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

ORIGIN OF RECORDS:

- LIMBURG PROVINCE. Borgloon ; 1♀; 26.v.2017 - 9.vi.2017; leg./coll./det. M. Jacobs; Caught with tree trap .

- LUXEMBOURG PROVINCE. Herbeumont ; 1♀; 21.vii.2017; leg./coll . T. De Blanck; det . T. De Blanck , J. D’Haeseleer, P. Vanormelingen, A. Pauly. Attert; 1♀; 23.vii.2021; leg./coll./det. K. Schoonvaere - Fig. 13 B View Fig . Tintigny ; 1♂; 23.vi.2023; leg./coll./det. M. Wielandts.