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Female on Medicago. Dolenje Jezero, Cerkniško jezero, July 2011 (above and below).

 

Rhophitoides canus (Eversmann, 1852)

 

 

Eurosiberian steppe species. In Slovenia in the sub-Pannonian, Dinaric and sub-Mediterranean regions.

Oligolectic, specialized on Medicago (Fabaceae). Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies from June to August.

 

 

 

Female from Dolenje Jezero, Cerknica, collected in July 1993.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Redka vrsta.

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia