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Fam.:  Orchidaceae / Orchid Family

Genus:  Ophrys  L.
 

Authors:
   PAULUS:  Hannes Franz Paulus (1943 - ), German biologist
   GACK:  Claudia Gack, German biologist from Freiburg in Breisgau
   P.DELFORGE:  Pierre Delforge (1945 - ), Belgian orchid specialist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Ophrys:   Greek plant name, from ophrys = eyebrow
   sabulosa:   name of the pollinating bee of genus Andrena
 

In Jber.naturwiss.Ver.Wuppertal 43 (1990): 134 PAULUS and GACK wrote about a wide spread Ophrys fusca s.l. with relative big lip, which is late in flower, i.e. usually not before april, and which they considered to be a Sicilian endemism. Unfortunately no photo of the taxon was published. Since then it was called by the provisional name 'sabulosa-fusca', which came from the pollinator, the solitary bee Andrena trimmerana (formerly A. sabulosa sensu WARNCKE). 2004 in Natural.belges 85 (Orchid. 17): 110-124 DELFORGE wrote a formal description of an Ophrys sabulosa, of which he thought it were PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. In 2020 in Jour.Eur.Orch. 52 (2-4): 355ff H.F.PAULUS wrote that it was not his sabulosa-fusca, but that in reality DELFORGEs Ophrys gackiae also described in 2004 is PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. Ophrys gackiae is not shown here but there.
However DELFORGE's Ophrys sabulosa, which is shown below, looks like Ophrys calocaerina which had been described in 1994 and which is occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean and most probably also in Southern Italy. But the identity isn't proven yet, because in Greece the pollinating bee of Ophrys calocaerina is Andrena labiata, while in Sicily PAULUS saw Andrena limbata on Ophrys sabulosa.

 

Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid, Sicily,  Buccheri 27.4.1998
Fig. 1:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid
Sicily, Buccheri 27.4.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid, Sicily,  Buccheri 27.4.1998
Fig. 2:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid
Sicily, Buccheri 27.4.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?), Sicily,  Niscemi 31.3.1998
Fig. 3:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?)
Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?), Sicily,  Niscemi 31.3.1998
Fig. 4:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?)
Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?), Sicily,  Niscemi 31.3.1998
Fig. 5:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?)
Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?), Sicily,  Niscemi 31.3.1998
Fig. 6:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?)
Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998
Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?), Sicily,  Niscemi 31.3.1998
Fig. 7:  Ophrys sabulosa / Sabulosa Bee Orchid (?)
Sicily, Niscemi 31.3.1998
   
 


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