Sphecodes tadschicus Blüthgen 1935

Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2017, The genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) in Central Asia, Zootaxa 4324 (2), pp. 249-284 : 272-273

Sphecodes tadschicus Blüthgen 1935 , stat. resurr.

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Sphecodes tadschicus Blüthgen in Popov 1935: 366 , ♂, ♀ (holotype: ♂, near Kulab [ Tajikistan], 25.VII.1935, V. Popov // Sph. tadschicus n. sp., ♂, Blüthgen det., 1934 // Type; ZISP), examined.

Sphecodes rufiventris tadschicus Blüthgen : Warncke 1992: 29.

Material examined. Uzbekistan: 1 ♂, SeravShan, 1892, GlaSunov, coll. F. Morawitz ( ZISP) . Kyrgyzstan: 1 ♀, 20 km ESE Pokrovka , 2000 m, 21.V.1998, A. Kireychuk ( ZISP) . Turkmenistan: 2 ♀, Bagir , AShkhabad, 21– 23.IV.1926 , AS ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, Western Kopetdag, Khasardag , 23.VI.1953, AP ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 3 ♂, Iol-Dere (gorge), 15 km NE Kara-Kala , 7.VII.1953, E. Arens ( ZISP) ; 4 ♂, Western Kopetdag, Syunt Mts. , 9.VII.1953, E. Arens ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Kopetdag Mts., Firyuza , 24.IV.1987, DK ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 5 km SE Firyuza , 2–3.VI.1985, AL ( FSCV) . Tajikistan: 3 ♂, Gissar Mts., Dzhurek , 22.IV.1921, A. Fursov ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Khodzhent , 8.VII.1930 ( ZISP) ; 2 ♀, Stalinabad [= Dushanbe], 11.V.1943, VP ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Gissar Mts., Takob , 13.VI.1952, N. Filippov ( ZISP) .

Published records. Popov (1967: 47): UzbekiStan, TajikiStan; Warncke (1992: 29): TajikiStan.

S. rufiventris ⊕ ⊕ ⊕

S. saxicolus ⊕ ⊕ ⊕ + S. spinulosus ⊕ ⊕ ⊕ ⊕ S. tadschicus + ⊕ ⊕ +

Total: 22 20 20 25 General distribution. ThiS SpecieS occurS in the mountainS of Central ASia ( UzbekiStan, * KyrgyzStan, * TurkmeniStan, TajikiStan); KazakhStan.

Remark. Warncke (1992) regarded Blüthgen’S SpecieS to be conSpecific with S. rufiventris , and demoted it to SubSpecific rank. Indeed, S. tadshicus iS Similar to S. rufiventris , aS well aS to S. schenckii , but each iS conSiStently different from the otherS, with S. tadschicus in Some reSpectS intermediate between S. rufiventris and S. schenckii . DifferenceS between theSe SpecieS are outlined in table 2.

Figures

FIGURES 29 – 57. Males, gonostylus, dorsal and lateral views; 29 — Sphecodes haladai Warncke; 30, 31 — S. hyalinatus Hagens; 32 — S. intermedius Blüthgen; 33, 34 — S. longulus Hagens; 35, 36 — S. miniatus Hagens; 37, 38 — S. monilicornis (Kirby); 39, 40 — S. olivieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau; 41 — S. pectoralis Morawitz; 42, 43 — S. pellucidus Smith; 44, 45 — S. nurekensis Warncke; 46, 47 — S. reticulatus Thomson; 48, 49 — S. rufiventris (Panzer); 50, 51 — S. scabricollis Wesmael; 52, 53 — S. turanicus Astafurova & Proshchalykin, sp. nov.; 54, 55 — S. tadschicus Blüthgen; 56, 57 — S. spinulosus Hagens. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 64 – 69. Females, head; frontal view; 64 — Sphecodes monilicornis (Kirby); 65 — S. olivieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau; 66 — S. rufiventris (Panzer); 67 — S. saxicolus Warncke; 68 — S. tadschicus Blüthgen; 69 — S. schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin.

FIGURES 93 – 98. Males; 93, 94 — head, frontal view; 95 — head, dorsal view 96 — mesoscutum; 97, 98 — metasoma, T 1 – T 2; 93 — Sphecodes rufiventris (Panzer); 94 — S. tadschicus Blüthgen; 95 — S. puncticeps Thomson; 96 — S. scabricollis Wesmael; 97 — S. nurekensis Warncke; 98 — S. croaticus Meyer.