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Female on Salvia officinalis. Brje pri Komnu, Kras, May 1989.

 

Melecta albifrons Forster, 1771

 

 

West Palaearctic species. Distributed in a large part of Slovenia.

Cleptoparasitic species. Hosts: species of the genus Anthophora, mainly Anthophora plumipes.

Univoltine. Flies from April to June.

 

Male on Buglossoides purpurocaerulea. Brje pri Komnu, Kras, April 2007.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Precej razširjena vrsta.

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia