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Dear Peter Kevan
possibibly Anthidium manicatum was introduced in Brazil with
furniture which European immmigrants brought from the Old World
during the last century. The species was already recorded from
Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul.
According Prof.Pe.J.S. Moure, the preferred plants of this bee in
Curitiba, Parana, are Leonurus sibiricus (Labiatae) and
Antirrhinum majus (Scrophulariaceae). Males hide in the flowers
of Antirrhinum waiting for females. In Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do
Sul, we found this species on flowers of Jacaranda mimosifoliae
(Bignoniaceae). We have some individual in our collection.
Betina Blochtein
PUC-University, Lab.Pesq.Biologicas
da Univ. Tuebingen, RFA
Av.Ipiranga, 6681
90.620 Porto Alegre, RS BRAZIL
Phone: (01512) 391511 Ramal 3280
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