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Female on Lotus tenuis. Fontanigge, Sečovlje salt-pans, July 2008.

 

Megachile rotundata (Fabricius, 1784)

 

 

West Palaearctic species. In the sub-Mediterranean, pre-Alpine and sub-Pannonian regions of Slovenia.

Polylectic species. Pers. obs.: Fabaceae, Apiaceae. Nests in various pre-existing cavities. Cells are made of scraps of leaves or petals.

Univoltine. Flies from June to August.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Zelo razširjena, a razmeroma redka vrsta.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia