Andrena ( Leucandrena ) favosa Morawitz, 1872

WOOD, T. J., 2024, Further revisions to the Palaearctic Andrena fauna (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae), Zootaxa 5483 (1), pp. 1-150 : 44-45

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scientific name	Andrena ( Leucandrena ) favosa Morawitz, 1872
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Andrena ( Leucandrena) favosa Morawitz, 1872 View in CoL

Andrena favosa Morawitz, 1872: 365 View in CoL , 1♀ [ Austria, NMW, lectotype by present designation] ( Figures 27A–D View FIGURE 27 )

Remarks. Astafurova et al. (2021; 2022b) also concluded that the type material of A. favosa was not in the ZISP collection. Examination of the NMW collection produced a female from Piesting collected by the Austrian entomologist Carl Tschek (†1872) in 1870, which matches Morawitz’s published locality and collector information, and the specimen is also labelled by Morawitz with a handwritten label. It may automatically be the holotype, but this is ambiguous from Morawitz’s description, and so it is designated as a lectotype in order to confirm its location and to confirm that the currently accepted synonymy with A. sericata Imhoff, 1868 is correct ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002).

Distribution ( Andrena sericata ). Central and Eastern Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Urals, Turkey, and the Caucasus ( Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002).

Material examined. AUSTRIA: Piesting [Markt Piesting], 1870, 1♀, leg. Tschek, NMW ( lectotype by present designation) .