Hoplitis (Anthocopa) convolvuli Muller 2022

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).