Description published
Benoist, Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 91: 323.
Location of type
Type material: Syntypes m(m), f(f), “Pyrénées-Orientales” [France], presumed lost (Haeseler, 1999: 455).-Synonymy with Osmia maritima Friese in Stöckhert (1954: 49), rejected by Tkalcu (1983: 152).