Nomada rufipes Fabricius 1793

Yu, Maxim & Lelej, Arkady S., 2010, Review of the Nomada roberjeotiana species-group (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Russia, with description of new species, Zootaxa 2335, pp. 1-15 : 10

Nomada rufipes Fabricius 1793

Nomada rufipes Fabricius 1793: 347 , ♀ (lectotype – ♀, designated by Schwarz 1966: 17, “Habitat in Germania ”); Nikiforuk 1957: 156; Osytshnjuk et al. 1978: 454; Sitdikov 1986: 105; Celary 1995: 25; Proshchalykin 2009: 240; Levchenko 2009: 16.

Nomada vaga Panzer 1798 : Hf. 55: 22 (type locality: “Habitat in Austria ”).

Nomada solidaginis Panzer 1799 : Hf. 71: 21 (type locality: “Habitat in Germania ”).

Apis picta Kirby 1802: 206 (type locality: “Barhamiae” [Great Britain]).

Apis rufopicta Kirby 1802: 207 (type locality: “Barhamiae” [Great Britain]).

Nomada solidaginis var. punctulifera Friese 1921: 252 , ♀, ♂ (type locality: Pregrada, Croatia).

Nomada solidaginis var. minutula Friese 1921: 253 , ♀, ♂ (type locality: “Weifsenfels, Gumperda, Jena, Oppenau in Baden und Fiume” [ Germany, Croatia]).

Nomada fennica Alfken 1924: 36 ♀, ♂ (type locality: “Kirchspiel, Rautu, Ostfinland, Karelische Landenge” [ Germany, East Finland, North-West Russia]).

Nomada rufipes nigriventris Alfken 1926: 49 (type locality: “Stuvenwald bei Harburg” [ Germany]).

Lectotype data: ♀, with two labels: rufipes [handwritten] // lectotype / Nomada rufipes Fabr. [handwritten] / M. Schwarz 1966 [NHMD]. The type is in very poor condition: head and most of mesosoma missing, legs missing, metasoma holed (pers. comm. of L. Vilhelmsen).

Material examined. Russia. Leningrad Prov.: 2 ♂, Petergof, Morawitz’s coll.; 1 ♀, Kamenka, 6.VIII.1917 (Kiyazhetskiy); 1 ♀, Strelna, 22.VII.1863 (Morawitz); 5 ♀, Ligovo, 24.VII–16.VIII.1864 (Morawitz); 1 ♀, Pargolovo, 20.VI.1883 (Morawitz); 2 ♀, Toskovo, 11.VIII.1928 (Gussakovskij); 1 ♀, Tolmachevo, 24.VII.1961 (Rudolf); 1 ♀, Yashchera, 4–17.VIII.1962 (Stackelberg); Yaroslavl Prov.: 1 ♂, Filino, 20.VII.1927 (Shestakov); 1 ♀, 3 ♂, Berditsino, 3.VII.1892, 11.VII.1894, 27.VI.1890, Jakovlev’s coll.; Kostroma Prov.: 2 ♀, Baidarki, 27.VII.1929 (Gussakovskij); 3 ♀, 1 ♂, Troista, 29.VII.1929 (Gussakovskij); Volgograd Prov.: 1 ♀, Sarepta (Becker); Yakutia: 1 ♂, Betintsy, Amga River, 11.VII.1902 (Olenin); 1 ♀, Novopokrovskoe, Amga River, 7.VIII.1925 (Bianchi); 2 ♀, Olekma River, 3.VIII.1974 (Pesenko); Amurskaya Prov.: 1 ♀, Mikhailovskii, 20.VII.1928 (Tupitsyn). Kazakhstan. 1 ♂, West-Kazakhstan Prov., Yanvartsevo, 7.VIII.1950 (Rudolf) [ ZIN, all are identified by M. Schwarz as N. rufipes ].

Distribution. Russia ( Fig. 2 ) [European part (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978), Yakutia (Davydova & Pesenko 2002), *Amurskaya Prov.], * Kazakhstan, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Algeria (Celary 1995).

Hosts. Andrena denticulata (Kirby) , A. fuscipes (Kirby) , A. nigriceps (Kirby) , Colletes cinicularius (Linnaeus) (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978) .

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FIGURE 2. Distribution map of Nomada roberjeotiana species-group in Russia.