Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Byvaltsev, A. M., Belova, K. A., Danilov, Yu. N., Molodtsov, V. V. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu., 2018, Megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the West Siberian Plain to the eastward of Irtysh River, Far Eastern Entomologist 364, pp. 10-28 : 18-19

Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Megachile centuncularis: Wnukowsky, 1930: 184 (Omsk Prov.); Shumakova et al., 1982:

166, part? (Altai Terr.).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Russia. Omsk Prov.: Bolshoi Atmas , 24.VI 2011, 4 ♀, AB ,

1 ♀, KB , 6 ♀, NH, 1 ♀, AP, 1 ♀, AS; idem, 26.VI 2011 , 6 ♀, KB , 1 ♀, AP; idem, 27.VI 2011 ,

1 ♀, AP, 1 ♀, KB; idem, 28.VI 2011 , 2 ♀, AB, 1 ♀, AS , 1 ♀, DN, NB; idem, 14.VI 2012 , 1 ♀,

AP; idem, 15.VI 2012, 1 ♀, 1 ♂, AB, 1 ♂, AP; idem , 16.VI 2012, 1 ♀, KB , 1 ♂, AP; idem ,

31.VII 2015, 2 ♀, AB; Krasnyi Oktyabr, 25.VI 2011, 1 ♀, AP; Tatarka, 13.VI 2012, 1 ♀,

AB; idem, 17.VI 2012, 1 ♂, KB; Novosibirsk Prov.: Chany Lake, 18.VI 1988, 1 ♂, Yu .

Kharitonov [ISEA]; Karasuk, 1.VIII 2011, 1 ♀, DN ; Krasnozerskoe, 13-14.VI 2016, 1 ♂,

KB; idem, 15-16.VI 2016, 1 ♂ , KB; Akademgorodok, 3.VII 2017, 1 ♂ , KB; Evsino, 6.VII

2017, 1 ♂, KB; Altai Terr.: Kuchukskoe Lake , 26.VI 2016 , 1 ♀, AB; idem, 28.VI 2016 , 3 ♀,

AB; Kolyvanskoe Lake , 18.VII 2017, 4 ♀♀, MP [FSCV]; Volchikha, 26.VII 2017, 1 ♂, MP

[FSCV].

DISTRIBUTION IN WEST SIBERIA. Ku, Om, *No, Al.

REMARK. It is possible that all of the data for this species in Shumakova et al. (1982)

are based on a misidentification. See also Megachile bombycina .