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Female on Echium vulgare. Ukanc, Bohinj, July 2009.

 

Hoplitis lepeletieri (Pérez, 1879)

 

 

Alpine species. In Slovenia only in Bohinj.

Oligolectic, specialized on Echium (Boraginaceae). Nests in hollows in stones are made of sand.

Univoltine. Flies in June and July.

 

Young specimens sleeping in the nest in which they grew up. Ukanc, Bohinj, July 1992.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Znana je le iz Bohinja.

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia