Hoplitis (Anthocopa) convolvuli Müller, 2022

Müller, Andreas & Wood, Thomas J., 2025, Still undescribed bees in Europe-description of nine new European osmiine bee species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), Zootaxa 5631 (1), pp. 83-102 : 101

Replacement name for Hoplitis (Anthocopa) convolvuli Müller, 2022

Ducke (1899) described Hoplitis papaveris convolvuli as a variety of Hoplitis papaveris (Latreille, 1799) due to slight morphological differences and its pollen specialization to flowers of Convolvulus ( Convolvulaceae ). Ducke’s taxon was later synonymized by Tkalců (1969) with Hoplitis perezi (Ferton, 1895) , which has a wide distribution ranging from the southwestern Mediterranean region over southern Europe and Turkey to Central Asia. Müller (2022) made a nomenclatural mistake and produced a nomen praeoccupatum, when he named a Moroccan Hoplitis species as Hoplitis convolvuli Müller, 2022 , a species that is most probably endemic to Morocco and not conspecific with H. perezi . This mistake is corrected here by proposing the following replacement name for the Moroccan endemic: Hoplitis (Anthocopa) trabutiana nom. nov.. The species epithet refers to Convolvulus trabutianus , which is used by the females of this species as an important source for both pollen and brood cell building material and by the males as rendezvous place ( Müller 2022).