Colletes chengtehensis Yasumatsu 1935

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Colletes chengtehensis Yasumatsu 1935

Colletes chengtehensis Yasumatsu 1935: 1 –2, 35–36, Plate 1, ♂ (holotype ♂, “Jehol, Cheng-teh [China], 17.VIII ”).

Colletes pallescens Noskiewicz 1936: 468 –469, ♀, ♂ (type locality: “Südostrussland (westlich bis Krim), Südsibirien, Mongolei, Ost-Turkestan und Turkestan”).

Colletes tsunekii Yasumatsu 1946(1948) : 19 (type locality: Mongolia).

Colletes marginatus pallescens: Warncke 1978: 358 .

Material examined. Armenia: 1 ♂, Sevan, Pambak [45.20E 40.18N], 9.VII.1955, L. Zimina ( ZMMU) ; Azerbaijan: 1 ♂, Bilav [45°50'E 39°05'N], 13.VI.1980 ( SMNF) ; 1 ♂, Lerik, Zuvand Gosmalian [48°20'E 38°40'N], 1300m, 12.VI.1996, M. Hauser (coll. Burger) ; 1 ♂, NW Baku, Varafta Mts. W Kilyazi [49°10'E 40°50'N], 250m, 25.VI.1996, M. Hauser ( SDEI) .

Published records. Skhirtladze 1981 (as. C. pallescens ) (Azerbaijan: Nachitschewan, Zhdanovsk, Kizjljgadijskij Zapovednik; Georgia: Shroma, Lagodekhi, Ratschisubani, Farakheti); Aliev 1985a (as. C. pallescens ) (Azerbaijan: Istisu, Bilav); Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2014b (Russia: Stavropol Terr., Dagestan Republic).

General distribution. *Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, North-eastern China, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.