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Male on Omphalodes verna. Iški Vintgar, April 2008.

 

Andrena helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

 

European species, widely distributed in Slovenia.

Polylectic species. Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies from April to June.

 

Female on Prunus spinosa. It is parasitized by a Stylops sp. female (Strepsiptera), of which only a small part sticks out between the abdominal segments (marked with an arrow below). Dane pri Divači, Kras, April 2008.

 

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia