Xylocopa valga

{{Short description|Species of bee}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Xylocopa valga fem.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Terzo, M.|author2=Nieto, A.| title = Xylocopa valga | volume= 2013| page = e.T13325229A13325391 | year = 2013}}

| image_caption = Carpenter-bee (Xylocopa valga) foraging Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) flowers.

| genus = Xylocopa

| species = valga

| authority = Gerstaecker, 1872{{cite web|title=Xylocopa valga Gerstaecker 1872|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=233529|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043919/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=233529|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|work=Fauna Europaea|access-date=23 January 2012|date=21 June 2004}}

}}

Xylocopa valga is a species of carpenter bee common to: western, central and southern Europe, except for far northern latitudes; the Caucasus; Middle East; Central Asia; and Mongolia.{{cite web

|url = http://www.sevin.ru/redbooksevin/content/112.html

|title = ПЧЕЛА - ПЛОТНИК - Xylocopa valga Gerstaecker, 1872

|author = Панфилов Д. В., Березин М. В.

|access-date = 2012-01-14

|language = ru

}} The species has become extinct in Latvia and Lithuania.{{Cite journal |last1=He |first1=Chunling |last2=Zhu |first2=Chaodong |date=2020-07-09 |editor-last=Ovadia |editor-first=Ofer |title=Nesting and foraging behavior of Xylocopa valga in the Ejina Oasis, China |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=15 |issue=7 |pages=e0235769 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0235769 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=7347186 |pmid=32645055|bibcode=2020PLoSO..1535769H |doi-access=free }}