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Wild bees represent a global group of highly diversified insect pollinators, nowadays concerningly well known for their widespread observed patterns of decline. Amongst them is the genus    Dasypoda   , a widespread Palearctic clade of solitary bees generally poorly represented in entomological collections. Among the 39 accepted species of the genus, 35 are known by both sexes, and a large number of taxa are still known by a low number of specimens. The recently described taxon   Dasypoda  ( Heterodasypoda )  michezi   Radchenko, 2017 endemic to southern Portugal is just such a case. The species was described from two male specimens, but no female material has been known to date. Here, we provide the first description of the female of    D.   michezi   , collected close to the  locus typicus  in southern Portugal along with a series of conspecific males. Sex pairing is proposed based on the sympatry of the male and female specimens and on the similar morphology of non-sexual dimorphic traits and on the barcode of a fragment of Cytochrome Oxidase I. We provide high quality imaging of both sexes of    D.   michezi    to help future identification of the species and present a key for all known species of the subgenusHeterodasypoda  . We finally propose an IUCN status for    D.   michezi    and discuss the conservation of such geographically restricted species in the current context of global change.

Assessment and conservation status of an endemic bee in a diversity hotspot ( Hymenoptera , Melittidae , Dasypoda )