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A couple on Stachys recta. Dragonja, Stena, May 2008 (above and below).

 

Protosmia tiflensis (Morawitz, 1876)

 

 

East Mediterranean species. In Slovenia only at Stena near Dragonja in Istra (sub-Mediterranean region).

It visits Fabaceae and Lamiaceae, I observed it on Stachys recta (Lamiaceae).

Nests probably in burrows in wood (Gräffe, 1892).

Univoltine. Flies from April to June.

 

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Edino najdišče je Stena pri Dragonji.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia