Melangyna lucifera Nielsen, 1980

Examined material. Styria: Mühlbachgraben 500 m, 47°08’25’’ N, 15°16’36’’ E, 23.3.2019 (1♀), leg. & det. H. Heimburg.

Notes. Melangyna lucifera was collected on blossoms of Salix spp. (it was found in flight, together with M. pavlovskyi). The surrounding area was dominated by humid coniferous forests (mostly trees of P. abies). Its distribution ranges from the northern Europe (southern Norway, Finland, and Denmark) to central Europe (e.g., Germany) to the Czech Republic and parts of European Russia and Siberia (Speight 2020).