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Female on Echium vulgare. Kavčič, Rakitovec, Kraški rob, June 2007.	Osmia mustelina Gerstaecker, 1841 East Mediterranean species. In the sub-Mediterranean and Alpine regions of Slovenia. Polylectic species. Observed on Fabaceae, Lamiaceae and Boraginaceae. Nests in hollows in stones are made of scraps of leaves. Univoltine. Flies from May to July.
Male on Lotus corniculatus. Cerje, Lokvica, Kras, April 2012.
Male on Medicago lupulina. Cerje, Lokvica, Kras, April 2012.
	Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji. V submediteranskem in alpskem območju.

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia