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Female on Potentilla hirta. Strunjan, Istra, May 2009.	Osmia rufohirta Latreille, 1811 North Mediterranean species. Distributed in a large part of Slovenia. Polylectic species. Nests in empty snail shells. Cell partitions are made of masticated leaves and the nest is closed with sand. On the Kras it uses snail shells of the species Pomatias elegans. Univoltine. Flies from May to July.
Female on her nest in the Pomatias elegans snail shell. Brje pri Komnu, Kras, July 1989.	More on Osmia rufohirta
Male on Potentilla tommasiniana. Gorjansko, Kras, April 2011.
	Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji. Na Primorskem pogosta vrsta.

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia