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In Jber.naturwiss.Ver.Wuppertal 43 (1990): 134 PAULUS and GACK wrote about a wide spread Ophrys fusca s.l. with relative big labellum, which is late in flower, i.e. usually not before april, and which they considered to be a Sicilian endemism. Unfortunately no photo of the taxon was published. Since then it was called by the provisional name 'sabulosa-fusca', which came from the pollinator, the solitary bee Andrena trimmerana (formerly A. sabulosa sensu WARNCKE). 2004 in Natural.belges 85 (Orchid. 17): 110-124 DELFORGE wrote a formal description of an Ophrys sabulosa, of which he thought it were PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. In 2020 in Jour.Eur.Orch. 52 (2-4): 355ff H.F.PAULUS wrote that it was not his sabulosa-fusca, but that in reality DELFORGEs Ophrys gackiae also described in 2004 is PAULUS' sabulosa-fusca. Photos of Ophrys gackiae are shown below.

Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 14.3.02
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 14.3.02
 		 Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 14.3.02
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 14.3.02
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 31.3.98
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Niscemi 31.3.98
 
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Licata 14.3.02
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Licata 14.3.02		 Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Licata 14.3.02
Ophrys gackiae, Sicily Licata 14.3.02
 
 
 
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