Colletes maidli Noskiewicz 1936

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 : 12

Colletes maidli Noskiewicz 1936

( Figs 4 a, 6b, 8c–f, 16b–d)

Colletes maidli Noskiewicz 1936: 166 –168, plate IV, fig. 1, plate XXVIII, figs 7–8, Ƥ, 3 (type locality: Noskiewicz (1936: 168) mentioned that the types of Ƥ and 3 are in the Natural History Museum in Vienna without specifying at which of the two listed sites they were collected: “Grado” or “Venetien-Lignano” [both NE Italy]).

Colletes lebedewi Noskiewicz 1936: 163 –166, plate III, fig. 6, Ƥ, 3 (type locality: Noskiewicz (1936: 166) mentioned that the types of Ƥ and 3 are in the Lebedev collection without specifying at which of the four listed sites they were collected: “Aleschki (Kherson)”, “Cosen Os (Kherson)”, “Krim” (Crimea) (all Ukraine) or “Suchum (Südwestkaukasus)” (southwestern Caucasus, Abkhazia). Syn. nov.

Material examined. Ukraine. Cherkasy Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Zmagailovka [=Krasnaya Sloboda] (32°07'E 49°24'N), 16.VI.1949, leg. AZO ( IZKU); Poltava Prov.: 1 3, Yareski (33°54'E 49°50'N), 20.VI.1922, leg. M. Belkovetskiy ( IZKU); 1 Ƥ, 10–11.VII.1923, leg. M. Belkovetskiy ( ZISP); Kherson Prov.: 2 Ƥ, Arabatskaya strelka (35°09'E 45°42'N), 16.VIII.1989, leg. MVF ( DNAU / RCMK); 1 f #, Tsuyrupinsk (32°45'E 46°37'N), 18–23.VI.2004, leg. E. Heibo (Berg coll.); Crimea: 1 Ƥ, Chatyr-Dag Mount. (34°29'E 44°56'N), 4.VII.1963, leg. AZO ( IZKU); 1 3, Chernomorskiy Distr., Medvedevo (34°06'E 44°56'N), 9.VI.2011, leg. SPI ( VTNU); 1 Ƥ, Kara-Tobe (33°31'E 45°08'N), 6.VIII.1928 ( VTNU); 1 3, Kastropol [=Beregovoe] (33°37'E 44°54'N), 30.VI.1902, leg. N. Kuznetsov ( ZISP); 1 3, Kurortnoe (35°11'E 44°54'N), 1.VIII.2004, leg. SPI ( RCMK); 1 3, Leninskiy Distr., Novootradnoe (36°03'E 45°23'N), 5.VII.2001, leg. Lezhenina ( VTNU); 2 3, Opuk (36°13'E 45°02'N), 2.VI.2002, leg. SPI ( VTNU / RCMK); 2 Ƥ, 1 3, Opukskiy Nature Reserve (36°11'E 45°01'N), 15–19.VIII.2003; 1 3, 12.VIII.2004, leg. MVF ( DNAU / RCMK); 1 3, Simferopol (34°06'E 44°56'N) ( VTNU).

Published records. Noskiewicz (1936: 166, as C. lebedewi ): Crimea, Kherson Prov.; Osytshnjuk (1970: 91, as C. lebedewi ): Cherkasy Prov., Poltava Prov., Crimea; Osytshnjuk et al. (1978: 296, as C. lebedewi ): Ukraine; Warncke (1978: 334, as C. lebedewi ): Ukraine.

Distribution in Ukraine ( Fig. 4 a). Cherkasy Prov., Poltava Prov., Kherson Prov., Crimea.

General distribution. Portugal, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran.

Remarks. Colletes lebedewi is here recognized as a synonym of C. maidli . Although both species were described in the same publication ( Noskiewicz 1936) C. maidli is given precedence over C. lebedewi because the former is widespread in the Mediterranean region, much more commonly collected and its name used in a recently published key for the identification of Iberian Colletes ( Ortiz-Sánchez et al. 2004) . Both species were described based on a relatively small number of specimens: C. lebedewi : 5 Ƥ and 9 3 and C. maidli : 23 Ƥ and 26 3. Based on a much more extensive dataset of 210 Ƥ and 339 3 from the entire distribution range ( lebedewi : 14 Ƥ, 22 3; maidli : 196 Ƥ, 317 3) it became clear that the few and subtle distinguishing characters of punctation & pilosity fall within the range of variation of C. maidli . Male genitalia and S7 are identical in both taxa. Variation in the morphology of hairs on metasomal terga and particularly the apical tergal hair bands is common in some species related to C. maidli like C. dusmeti Noskiewicz ( Kuhlmann 2007) and is particularly pronounced in C. eous Morice and C. nigricans Gistel ( Kuhlmann 2000) .

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FIGURE 4. Distribution of Colletes in Ukraine: a— C. daviesanus Smith, C. maidli Noskiewicz; b— C. inexpectatus Noskiewicz, C. carinatus Radoszkowski; c— C. chengtehensis Yasumatsu; d— C. tuberculatus Morawitz.