Hylaeus (Lambdopsis) tephronotus ( WARNCKE, 1992 )

Özbek, Hikmet & Dathe, Holger H., 2020, The bees of the genus Hylaeus FABRICIUS, 1793 of Turkey, with keys to the subgenera and species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2), pp. 273-346 : 320

Hylaeus (Lambdopsis) tephronotus ( WARNCKE, 1992)

Fig. 11

Prosopis (Lambdopsis) tephronota WARNCKE, 1992: 782–783 , . Turkey: Hakkâri.

Hylaeus (Lambdopsis) tephronotus ( WARNCKE, 1992) – ITIS (2020).

Remarks: H. tephronotus is still exclusively known only from the nine females of the original type series; the male is unknown. The epithet is derived from τέφρα (Greek) and means “ash grey back”, as for example are back and wing covers of the Persian Nuthatch ( Sitta tephronota ). The bee species in question is completely black. (Of course, scientific names do not necessarily have to agree with the facts.) Hylaeus tephronotus is clearly smaller than H. dilatatus , and resembles H. pfankuchi not only because of missing side spots. Different appears to be the clear dense fine punctation of the metasomal terga. A peculiarity is the strikingly long bristles on the lower part of the clypeus. H. tephronotus has been recorded as a mountain species from few sites (Hakkâri, 1700–3000 m), flying early in August. It is apparently a species of limited distribution, found only in Turkey. It is rarely recorded in Turkey (1 province, Fig. 17.8 ).

Distribution: Turkey: Hakkâri.

Figures

Fig. 11: H. (Lambdopsis) tephronotus (WARNCKE, 1992). Holotype female: a–face, b–mesonotum, c–mesopleuron, d–propo-

Fig. 17: Distribution map of rarely recorded Hylaeus species in Turkey: species collected in only one (1-12) or two (II-X)