Relationship: Deviation

Ophrys fusca subsp. bilunulata is considered, under different names ("flavipes-fusca", bilunulata, marmorata, delforgei, lucifera, subfusca sensu Lowe 2010, etc.), and at diverse levels, by every authors, both orchidologists and botanists, since the 1980's in the whole W-Medit. area.
Ophrys fusca subsp. calocaerina (incl. O. lucana, O. sabulosa) added according to morphological (sulcate and big labellum), phenological (late) and biogeographical (Sicily, S-Italy, mainland Greece) evidences suggested by diverse publications and shared by a lot of field botanists.
Ophrys fusca subsp. creticola and subsp. leucadica (s.l.) added according to the Greek and Cretan floras and guides that generally consider them, at least at subspecies level, or even at full species.
Ophrys fusca subsp. flammeola added in conformity with the African Data Base but at subspecies level in order to conserve the global consistency : https://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=228062
Ophrys fusca subsp. forestieri (s.l.), synonym of O. lupercalis (among others), is a W-Mediterranean early taxon also known under the provisional name "nigroaenea-fusca".