Ceratina (Euceratina) chalybea (Chevrier, 1872)

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 : 20

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16958242
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scientific name	Ceratina (Euceratina) chalybea (Chevrier, 1872)
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Ceratina (Euceratina) chalybea (Chevrier, 1872) View in CoL – Belg. sp. nov.

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Both sexes with a metallic blue (-green) color, pale mark on the clypeus and pale mark on the pronotal lobe. This species is easy to distinguish from the other Ceratina species in Belgium by its large size (6-9 mm). It is however not the largest Ceratina species that occurs in Europe.

DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE: found throughout Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa and large parts of Asia ( SCHEUCHL & WILLNER, 2016). No records from the Netherlands ( REEMER, 2018; www.waarneming.nl), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( HERRERA MESÍAS & WEIGAND, 2021) or the United Kingdom ( ELSE & EDWARDS, 2018), but present in France and Germany ( TERZO et al., 2007).

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

ORIGIN OF RECORDS:

- LUXEMBOURG PROVINCE. Herbeumont; 1♀; 21.vii.2021; leg./coll. O. Foubert; det. O. Foubert, W. Vertommen, J. Devalez. Aubange; 1♀; 17.vi.2023; leg./det. T. Vandaudenard. On Echium vulgare ( Boraginaceae ) - Fig. 9 J View Fig .

- NAMUR PROVINCE. Viroinval; 1♀; 12.vi.2022; leg./coll./det. T. Vandaudenard. On Centaurea jacea ( Asteraceae ).