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Female in front of the nest burrow in vertical face of quartz sand. Bizeljsko, Župjek sand-pit, August 2010 (above and below).

 

Colletes daviesanus Smith, 1846

 

 

Eurosiberian species. In the sub-Mediterranean, Dinaric, pre-Alpine and sub-Pannonian regions of Slovenia.

Oligolectic, specialized on Asteraceae. Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies from June to August.

 

 

Female on Leucanthemum. Izvir Rižane, Istra, June 2006.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Razširjena, vendar razmeroma redka vrsta.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia