Tetralonia malvae

Short description: Species of bee

Tetralonia malvae

Mallow longhorn (Tetralonia malvae), Pfaffenhofen, Germany
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hymenoptera
Family:  | Apidae
Genus:  | Tetralonia
Species:  |

T. malvae

Binomial name
Tetralonia malvae

(Rossi, 1790)

Synonyms[1]

* Tetralonia macroglossa (Illiger, 1806)

Tetralonia malvae, also known as the Mallow longhorn, is a species of insect belonging to the family Apidae.[2] The bee takes pollen from oligolectic sources on the mallow family (Malvaceae).[3]

## Contents

* 1 Behaviour
* 2 Parasitism
* 3 Flight period
* 4 Distribution
* 5 References

## Behaviour

They generally nest on bare or sparsely overgrown ground, even to heavily sloping surfaces, or in steep walls in self-dug corridors in the earth, often in aggregations. The preferred substrate is sand, loess or loess clay. The nest consists of a corridor that can branch out. The brood cells are more or less upright and are inside with a shiny layer coated.[3] The species inhabits dry and warm locations; vineyards, fallow and ruderal areas, sand and clay pits, steep banks, from plains to the montane altitude level.[3]

## Parasitism

They are parasitised by the cuckoo bee species Triepeolus tristis. Another nest parasite is a bladder-head fly of the genus Conops.[3]

## Flight period

They can be seen in one generation from June to August.[3]

## Distribution

The species is found from Spain, across southern and central Europe, southern Russia, Asia Minor and Caucasus to Central Asia; north to Lithuania and Orenburg; south to Sicily, Crete, Syria, Iraq and Northern Iran.[3]

## References

1. ↑ "Tetralonia malvae". Species. GBIF. http://www.gbif.org/species/124583177.
2. ↑ "Tetralonia malvae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=766437.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Erwin., Scheuchl (2016) (in German). Taschenlexikon der Wildbienen Mitteleuropas : alle Arten im Porträt. Quelle und Meyer. ISBN 978-3-494-01653-5. OCLC 1041414212. http://worldcat.org/oclc/1041414212.

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