Анотація:
A New East-Mediterranean Subgenus and a New Species of Andrena Bees (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae). Osytshnyuk A. Z.— Vestn. zool., 1984, No. 1. A new subgenus of
Andrena, Leimelissa subg. n., clearly differs from closely related Holandrena Pérez
by elongated glossa and palpae labiales, unpunctuated galea, clypeal shape and sculpture,
absence of carinae laterales on pronotum, size and sculpture of propodeal enclosure and
by well developed propodeal corbicula. Three species are assigned {o the new subgenus:
Andrena bairacumensis Mor. (type species), A. ponomarevae Osytshnyuk (S. Kazakhstan) and A. ermolenkoi sp. n. (Transcaucasia). The new Species is similar lo
A. ponomarevae by pubescence character and colour, differs by the ratio of length of
glossa and palpae labiales; female also differs by Ist abdominal tergite punctuation,
male — by the size of Ist antennal flagellum segment, 7th and 8th sternites shape, genitalic structure. Type material deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Ukr.SSR Academy of Sciences (Kiev) and in the Zoological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences
(Leningrad).