Authors: Wood, Patiny & Bossert 2022

Type species:   Camptopoeum baldocki Wood & Cross, 2017 by original designation.
Clade: Anthophila
Family: Andrenidae
Subfamily: Panurginae
Tribe: Panurgini
Distinctive traits
  • Small bees with yellow markings on the body
  • 2 submarginal cells of equivalent size
  • truncated marginal cell
  • The first recurrent vein enters the second submarginal cell
  • Scopa composed of simple hairs.
  • hairless fovea
Pictures of distinctive traits
Morphologically close genera, and how to distinguish them:
  • Halopanurgus - Flavipanurgus
Halopanurgus species have a the punctation of the frons fine and weak. Sternite 7 in males is not strongly excavated apicomedially. The gonocoxae are apically produced into strong triangular points.
Flavipanurgus species have the frons strongly and clearly punctate. Sternite 7 in males is strongly excavated apicomedially. The gonocoxae are not produced into apicalpoints.
  • Halopanurgus - Simpanurgus
Halopanurgus males have a fore tarsi normal, not strongly flattened, and the antennae are not clavate.
Simpanurgus males have strongly flattened fore tarsi and clavate antennae. The female of Simpanurgus is unknown
  • Halopanurgus - Panurgus
Halopanurgus species have yellow markings on the body. Their scopa is composed of simple hairs.
Panurgus species never present yellow markings on the body. Their scopa is composed of spiraled hairs with an apical spine.
  • Halopanurgus - Camptopoeum
Halopanurgus males have sternite 7 broader than long. The gonocoxae are produced into strong apical triangular points.
Camptopoeum males have sternite 7 as broad as long or slightly longer, parallel or almost. The gonocoxa are not produced into apical points.
General comments on Halopanurgus species identification
Halopanurgus species are distinguished among other things by the punctation of their propodeum and their anal fringe.
Sorry, but the species identification tool is not yet available for Halopanurgus. 
Please check the reference(s) at the bottom of the page for traditional keys.
List of the 2 Halopanurgus species found in Europe (Ghisbain et al. 2023):
Halopanurgus baldocki (Wood and Cross, 2017)
Halopanurgus fuzetus (Patiny, 1999)
References with identification keys for some of the species:
  • Osytshnjuk, A.Z. (1978). Semejstvo Andreninae – Andrenidy. In Opredelitel nasekomych evropejskoj chasti SSSR. (pp. 315-369). Leningrad: Nauka.
  • Schmid-Egger C. & Scheuchl E. (1997) Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wildbienen Deutschlands und Österreichs unter Berücksichtigung der Arten der Schweiz. Band Andrenidae. Velden/Deutschland.
  • Patiny, S. (1999). Description de nouvelles espèces de Camptopoeum Spinola, 1843 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae, Panurginae). Notes fauniques de Gembloux, 37, 71-76.
  • Wood, T. J., & Cross, I. (2017). Camptopoeum (Camptopoeum) baldocki spec. nov., a new panurgine bee species from Portugal and a description of the male of Flavipanurgus fuzetus Patiny (Andrenidae: Panurginae). Zootaxa, 4254(2), 285-293.
Online resources:
Atlas hymenoptera (Europe)
WestPalBees (Europe)
Page contributors:
  • Adrien Perrard (Dec. 2023)

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References used to write this page:
  • Ghisbain, G., Rosa, P., Bogusch, P., Flaminio, S., Le Divelec, R., Dorchin, A., Kasparek, M., Kuhlmann, M., Litman, J., Mignot, M., Müller, A., Praz, C., Radchenko, V.G., Rasmont, P., Risch, S., Roberts, S.P.M., Smit, J., Wood, T.J., Michez, D. & Reverte, S. (2023). The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila). Zootaxa, 5327(1), 1-147.
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