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Müller, A., R. Prosi, and H. Wiesbauer. 2016. Distribution, biology and habitat of the rare European osmiine bee species Osmia (Melanosmia) pilicornis (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Osmiini). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 52: 1–36. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.52.10441

Osmia pilicornis is distributed from western temperate Europe to western Siberia, where it exclusively occurs in open-structured, mesophilous and mainly deciduous woodland below 1000 m a.s.l. In Central Europe, its peak activity ranges from the last third of March to the first third of June. Due to …

Vladimír Balthasar
Vladimír Balthasar

June 21, 1897 – November 10, 1978

Czechoslovakia

Megachilidae

Collected Megachilidae and identified Apidae