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Female from the Sečovlje salt-pans, collected in July 1995.

 

Megachile deceptoria Pérez, 1890

 

 

Mediterranean species. In Slovenia only in the Sečovlje salt-pans (sub-Mediterranean region).

Visits Fabaceae (e.g. Ononis, Lotus) (pers. obs.). Nests in the ground (Benoist 1940).

Univoltine. Flies from June to September.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Poznana je le iz Sečoveljskih solin.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia