Colletes caspicus Morawitz 1874

Yu, Maxim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2012, The bees of the genus Colletes Latreille 1802 of the Ukraine, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), Zootaxa 3488, pp. 1-40 : 9-11

Colletes caspicus Morawitz 1874

( Figs 3 h, 8a–b, 16a)

Colletes caspicus Morawitz 1874: 174 –175, Ƥ (type locality: Derbent, Dagestan Republic, Russia).

Colletes balticus Alfken 1912: 121 , Ƥ, 3 (type locality: Germany). Synonymized by Kuhlmann 2000: 163.

Material examined. Ukraine. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 3, Korsun-Svevchenkovskiy Nature Reserve (32°02'E 49°41'N), 14.VII.1928, leg. SIM ( ZISP); Odessa Prov.: 1 3, Kiliya (29°15'E 45°27'N), 7.VI.1951, leg. AZO ( IZKU); 2 3, Vilkovo (29°35'E 45°23'N), 30.V.1911, leg. Chernavin ( ZISP); Kherson Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Aleshki [=Tsuyrupinsk] (32°45'E 46°37'N), 14.VII.1924, leg. S. Fedorova ( IZKU); 1 Ƥ, Blak Sea Nature Reserve (31°52'E 46°15'N), 14.VI.1960, leg. AZO ( IZKU); 1 3, Dzharylgach (33°00'E 46°01'N), 2.VII.1950, leg. SIM ( IZKU); Crimea: 5 3, Evpatoria (33°21'E 45°11'N), 30.VII.1913, leg. W. Pliginski ( ZISP).

Published records. Noskiewicz (1936: 159): Ternopol Prov. (Varvarintsy); Odessa Prov. (Ismail); Crimea (Saki); Osytshnjuk (1970: 90): Odessa Prov., Kherson Prov., Crimea; Osytshnjuk et al. (1978: 296): Ukraine; Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin (2011: 7): Ukraine.

Distribution in Ukraine ( Fig. 3 h). Cherkasy Prov., Odessa Prov., Kherson Prov., Crimea.

General distribution. Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan.

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FIGURE 3. Distribution of Colletes in Ukraine: a— C. similis Schenck, C. tardus Noskiewicz; b— C. hylaeiformis Eversmann, C. anchusae Noskiewicz; c— C. cunicularius (Linnaeus), C. brevigena Noskiewicz; d— C. fodiens (Fourcroy), C. marginatus Smith; e— C. eous Morice, C. succinctus (Linnaeus); f— C. mlokossewiczi Radoszkowski, C. punctatus Mocsary; g— C. nasutus Smith, C. graeffei Alfken; h— C. albomaculatus (Lukas), C. caspicus Morawitz.