Flaminio, S.

Fontana, P.

La Mantia, T.

Lo Verde, G.

Malagnini, V.

Quaranta, M.

Ragusa, E.

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Naturalista sicil., S. IV, XLVII (1), 2023, pp. 209-211GABRIELLA LO VERDE, PAOLO FONTANA, VALERIA MALAGNINI, TOMMASOLA MANTIA, ERNESTO RAGUSA, SIMONE FLAMINIO & MARINO QUARANTAA CONTRIBUTE TO WILD BEE FAUNA IN SICILYUn contributo alla fauna di apoidei selvatici della Sicilia(Isole di Lampedusa e Pantelleria)Lampedusa (Pelagie archipelago, including also Linosa and Lampione)and Pantelleria are two islands of the Sicilian Channel. Lampedusa(35°30’05’’ N – 12°36’34’’ E), 20.2 km2 is the biggest island of PelagieArchipelago, the most common rock outcrops are limestones and marls, themean annual rainfall is 300 mm with extremely irregular yearly rain events,usually concentrated between October-March. The mean annual temperatureis 19 °C. The whole island was subject to intense degradation due to humancolonisation, causing during the last century a severe depletion of animal andplant species. Pantelleria Island (Italy) (83 km2; 36°47’27’’N, 11°59’38’’E) isa volcanic island with a typical Mediterranean climate, most of the precipita-tion between October and February, a mean annual rainfall of 531 mm, andmonthly average temperatures ranging from 13.7 °C. In the last centuries, alarge part of the island (up to 80%) have been intensively cultivated, beinggrape the main culture for many decades; however, nowadays, cultivated sur-faces has fallen to less than 20%, with caper monocultures being the maincrop. Nevertheless, thanks to its extension, altitude and volcanic origin, avariety of peculiar habitats characterize the island of Pantelleria, leading in2016 to the establishment of the National Park “Isola di Pantelleria”.With regard to the insect fauna of Lampedusa and Pantelleria, a com-prehensive checklist is reported in the massive volume on the Arthropodaof Lampedusa, Linosa e Pantelleria (MASSA, 1995). Nevertheless, in the lasttwo decades, the bee fauna of Lampedusa and Pantelleria received poorDOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8165272attention, and only few papers reported new records for the two islands(PAGLIANO, 2003, 2011, 2017). Differently, recent studies allowed increas-ing the knowledge on bees occurring in other Italian islands, like the Aeo-lian Archipelago, Sicily (TURRISI et al., 2020) and Sardinia (NOBILE et al.,2021). Currently, 57 species of bees are known in Lampedusa and 38 speciesin PantelleriaIn recent years, European or national projects have promoted furtherstudies on bee fauna of Lampedusa and Pantelleria, and bee samplings havebeen carried out in some different habitat of the two islands. Here, wereport as first records for the island of Lampedusa: Anthophora senescens,Anthidium florentinum, Eucera algira, Osmia cornuta, Osmia mustelina,whereas the two genera Anthidium and Dasypoda are new records for Pan-telleria island.Species identification of the bees collected in the two islands is stillongoing, and other interesting findings are expected, allowing to give a fur-ther contribute to the regional and national check lists, and in general toimprove our knowledge on pollinator diversity and the threats in such differ-ent insular conditions.Aknowledgements — The studies carried out in Lampedusa and Pantelleria were funded bythe LIFE Desert Adapt project (http://www.desert-adapt.it/index.php/en/) and the Projects Polli-nator Biodiversity Conservation assigned by the Pantelleria National Park to the University of Paler-mo (SAAF Department) and to the Edmund Mach Foundation.REFERENCES GUIGLIA D., 1957. Esplorazione biogeografca delle isole Pelagie. Hymenoptera aculeata. Scoliidae,vespidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae, Apidae. Boll. Soc. entomol. ital., 87: 141-149. MASSA B. (ed.), 1995. Arthropoda di Lampedusa, Linosa e Pantelleria (Canale di Sicilia, Mar Medi-terraneo). Naturalista sicil., 19(Suppl.): 912 pp.PAGLIANO G., 2003. Ricerche imenotterologiche nelle isole di Lampedusa e Pantelleria (Hymenop-tera Apocrita). Naturalista sicil., 27: 115-149. PAGLIANO G., 2017 Ricerche imenotterologiche nell’isola di Lampedusa con segnalazione di nuovespecie. Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. nat. Torino, 33(1-2): 179-196.PAGLIANO G. & NOBILE V., 1993. Il genere Xylocopa Latreille 1802 in Italia (Hymenoptera: Apoi-dea). Boll. Accad. gioenia Sci. Nat. Catania, 26(342): 133-144.PAGLIANO G. & SCARAMOZZINO P. L., 1995. Hymenoptera Gasteruptiidae, Ichneumonidae e Acu-leata (esclusi Chrysidoidea, Mutillidae e Formicidae). Pp. 723-738 in: Massa B. (ed.)Arthropoda di Lampedusa, Linosa e Pantelleria (Canale di Sicilia, Mar Mediterra-nea). Naturalista sicil., 19(Suppl.). ROMANO M., 2020. Insects of Lampedusa, Linosa and Pantelleria: addenda to the 1995 checklist.Pp. 179-207 in: La Mantia T., Badalamenti E., Carapezza A., Lo Cascio P. & Troia A.(eds.), Life on islands. I. Biodiversity in Sicily and surrounding islands. Studies dedi-cated to Bruno Massa. Ed. Danaus, Palermo. TURRISI G. F., ALTADONNA G., LO CASCIO P., NOBILE V. & SELIS M. 2020. Contribution to the210 LO VERDE, FONTANA, MALAGNINI, LAMANTIA, RAGUSA, FLAMINIO& QUARANTAknowledge of Hymenoptera from the Aeolian Archipelago (Sicily), emphasizingAculeata. Biodivers. J., 11: 717-750.NOBILEV., CATANIA R., NIOLU P., PUSCEDDUM., SATTAA., FLORIS I., FLAMINIO S., BELLA S. & QUA-RANTA M., 2021. Twenty New Records of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) for Sardinia(Italy). Insects, 12(7): 627.Authors’ Address — G. LO VERDE, T. LAMANTIA, E. RAGUSA, Università degli Studi di Paler-mo, Dipartimento Scienze Agrarie Alimentari e Forestali, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 4 – 90128 Paler-mo (I); email: gabriella.loverde@unipa.it, tommaso.lamantia@unipa.it, ernesto.ragusa@unipa.it;P. FONTANA, V. MALAGNINI, Fondazione Edmund Mach - Centro Trasferimento Tecnologico. Viadella Val, 2, Loc. Costa di Casalino – 38057 Pergine Valsugana (Trento, Italy); email:paolo_api.fontana@fmach.it, valeria.malagnini@fmach.it; S. FLAMINIO, M. QUARANTA, CREAResearch Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Via di Corticella, 133 – 40128 Bologna (I);simone.flaminio@crea.gov.it,  marino.quaranta@crea.gov.it.211A contribute to wild bee fauna in Sicily

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