Critically Endangered
Simpanurgus phyllopodus
Simpanurgus phyllopodus
An insect endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, known only from Spain.
Appearance
A bee with a body 8 to 9 mm long, colored black with yellow markings, among them stripes on the metasoma. The dorsal surface of the extra-trunk is at most slightly longer than the back. Their seventh sternum has a wide disc and four widely spaced appendages.
Its mouthparts are characterized by a comb on the external mandibles, a tongue half the length of the forechin, and labial palps with the first segment shorter than the rest put together.
Both taxa were described in 1912 by Klaus Warncke in 1972, with Simpanurgus initially classified as a subgenus in the genus Panurgus.
Range and habitat
An insect endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, known only from Spain.
GBIF currently lists 3 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
According to the European bee red list, it is a critically endangered species.
Simpanurgus phyllopodus is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Polish Wikipedia article on Simpanurgus phyllopodus, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q2467306 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
