''Camptopoeum friesei'' is a

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of bees of the genus ''

Camptopoeum ''Camptopoeum'' is a genus of bees of the subfamily Panurginae. Species Catalogue of Life The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created ...

''.

Description

The species is 6-10 mm in size, the hairs of the male are long and dense, those of the female short and tight.

Range

Central Asian-Eastern European. From Spain, southern and eastern Europe, Ukraine and southern Russia to Bashkiria and across Asia Minor and the Caucasus to western Turkmenistan and western Kazakhstan; northward to Eastern Austria and Slovakia, south to Lazio, Crete and the south coast of Turkey. In central Europe exclusively in the Lacken area of the Seewinkel area (

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Habitat

''Camptopoeum friesei'' occurs in salt steppes from the lowlands to the colline altidtude level.

Ecology

Flight period is in one generation from July to September. ''Camptopoeum friesei'' is oligolectic on

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

of the subfamily

Carduoideae Carduoideae is the thistle subfamily of the Asteraceae, or sunflower family, of flowering plants. It comprises a number of tribes in various circumscriptions of the family, in addition to the Cynareae. Takhtajan, according to Reveal, includes 1 ...

, mainly

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and

Carduus ''Carduus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and the tribe Cardueae, one of two genera considered to be true thistles, the other being ''Cirsium''. Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles.

. When it comes to the nesting substrate, ''Camptopoeum friesei'' is extremely specialized. It only nests in salty, alternately moist soda soils (Solontschak soils), which e.g. occur in the area around Lake Neusiedl. It usually forms nest aggregations. ''Camptopoeum friesei'' is being parasited by the cuckoo bee '' Parammobatodes schmidti''.

Etymology

Dedicated to the German apidologist

Heinrich FRIESE Heinrich Friese (Heinrich Friedrich August Karl Ludwig Friese, was born on 4 May, 1860 in Schwerin, and died 8 September, 1948 in Schwerin) was a German biologist and entomologist, specialist of bees ( melittologist).

(1860-1948).

References

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