Epeolus cruciger (Panzer, 1799)

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2023, The genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in Central Asia, ZooKeys 1181, pp. 241-263 : 241

Epeolus cruciger (Panzer, 1799)

Nomada crucigera Panzer, 1799: 20, ♂ (type locality: Austria).

Epeolus rufipes Thomson, 1870: 91, ♀ (type locality: S Sweden).

Epeolus similis Höppner, 1899: 355-356, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Freisenbüttel, Germany).

Epeolus cruciger var. elegans Müller, 1921: 168, ♀ (type locality: Arnswalde, Germany).

Epeolus cruciger var. rufiventris Müller, 1921: 168, ♀ (type locality: Arnswalde, Germany).

Epeolus marginatus Bischoff, 1930: 11, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Warnemünde, Germany).

Published data.

Morawitz 1880: 371 (Kazakhstan, as E. rufipes ); Popov 1954: 365 (Kazakhstan); Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2021c: 11 (Kazakhstan); 2022a: 319 (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan).

Material examined.

Kazakhstan, 1 ♀, Kyzylorda , Perovsk district, Kara-Uzyan, 15.IV.16, leg. N. Pulikovskaya [ZISP] ; 1 ♀, Syr Darja River , Kazalinsk distr., 7.VI.1926, leg. Rukavishnikov [ZISP] ; 1 ♂, Altay Mts , 10 km ENE of Nikitinka, Koktau Mts, 7.VIII.1983, leg. SB [ZISP] ; 1 ♀, 25 km SSW of Zhansugirov, Aksu River , Zhungarskiy Alatau, 1600 m, 26.VII.1986, leg. Yu. Pesenko [ZISP] ; Kyrgyzstan, 1 ♀, Ussyk-Kyl-Tal, Umg. Ortotokoj , 1700 m, 20.VII.1997, leg. V. Dolin [ZISP] ; 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂, 30 km ESE of Rybachiy, Issyk-Kul Lake , 15.VII.1979, leg. Yu. Pesenko [ZISP] .

Distribution.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan; Europe, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Russia (northeast to Magadan Prov.), Mongolia.

Remarks.

In Central Asia Epeolus cruciger is common only in northern Kazakhstan, but in the remaining Central Asian territories this species is rare and occurs mostly in the mountains. Here females have a mostly well-developed red pattern in the integument coloration and yellowish pubescence.