Chamaepsila andreji (Shatalkin, 1996)

Roháček, 2013: This little known species was described from a single male from Russia: N Ossetia, Caucasus (Shatalkin 1996) and has recently been found in northern Italy (Shatalkin & Merz 2010) near Verona (A. I. Shatalkin, personal communication 2013). It is distinctively coloured, having the entire thorax and head (with only ocellar triangle black, Fig. 2) orange-yellow, combined with black abdominal terga and apex of palpi (Fig. 1). It therefore most resembles Ch. nigrosetosa Frey, 1925 but differs from it by the black 1st flagellomere. The single female collected in the Muránska planina NP agrees well with Italian specimens (which have setae dark brown in contrast to yellow setae of the holotype from Caucasus, see Shatalkin & Merz 2010: 795)

Distribution

Europe: Countries (published), online at Fauna Europaea, Occurrences at GBIF