Sphecodes discoverlifei Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2020

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Niu, Ze-Qing, Orr, Michael C. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2020, New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae) from Southern and South-Western China, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79, pp. 145-162 : 145

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scientific name	Sphecodes discoverlifei Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2020
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Treatment

Sphecodes discoverlifei Astafurova & Proshchalykin in Astafurova et al. 2020: 46, ♀, ♂ (holotype: ♂, Laos, Phongsaly prov., Phongsaly env., 21°41'N, 102°06'E, 1500 m, 1-30.VI.2003, P. Pacholatko leg., PCMS).

Material examined.

Yunnan: Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve , Guomenshan (22.2452N, 100.6011E), 1107 m, 6.IV.2009, (1 ♀), leg. Ling-Zeng Meng [IZCAS] GoogleMaps .

Published records.

Variation.

Unlike the typical form described from Laos where the female propodeal triangle has mostly longitudinal wrinkles (see Astafurova et al. 2020: 48, fig. 39), the specimen from Yunnan has a propodeal triangle with wrinkles clearly forming a reticular sculpture.

Distribution.

*China (Yunnan); Laos.