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Female in a Campanula trachelium flower. Podpeč, Jezero, July 2008.

 

Melitta haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1775)

 

 

Eurosiberian species, widely distributed in Slovenia.

Oligolectic, specialized on Campanula (Campanulaceae). Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies from July to September.

 

Male resting in a Campanula trachelium flower. Podpeč, Jezero, July 2008.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Zelo razširjena in pogosta vrsta je po nekaj sušnih letih izginila v delu svojega areala.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia