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Female on Allium pulchellum. Sedovec, Trnovski gozd, August 1997 (above and below).

 

Colletes graeffei Alfken, 1900

 

 

East Mediterranean species. In Slovenia in the sub-Mediterranean region, Rimske Toplice and Polhograjsko Hribovje.

Locus typicus: Tolmin.

Oligolectic, specialized on Allium (Liliaceae). In Slovenia it visits exclusively the flowers of Allium pulchellum.

Univoltine. Flies in July and August.

 

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Predvsem na Krasu in kraških gorah, pa tudi v Polhograjskem hribovju. Po letih velike razširjenosti je njena številčnost spet upadla.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia