Nomioides minutissima purpurascens Blüthgen, 1934

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2019, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution II. Family Halictidae, subfamilies Rophitinae, Nomiinae, and Nomioidinae, Zootaxa 4650 (1), pp. 1-71 : 49

46. Nomioides minutissima purpurascens Blüthgen, 1934

( Figs 46 a–e)

Nomioides minutissima var. purpurascens Blüthgen, 1934: 241 , ♀.

Type locality: Tartugai ( Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality: corresponds to data on the holotype label (see below).

Holotype: ♀, Тартугай [ Kazakhstan, Kyzylorda Province , Tartugai, 44°27′N 66°15′E], 3-15.VI.1929, А. Шестаков [A. Shestakov leg.] // Type <red label> // Holotypus <red label> // Nomioides minutissima (R.), ♀, v. purpu . [handwritten by P. Blüthgen], P. Blüthgen det. 1933 // Nomioides ino (Nurse) , ♀, Pesenko det. [20]04 // Zoo- logical Institute St. Petersburg, INS_HYM_0000136.

Current status. Nomioides (Nomioides) ino (Nurse, 1904) (synonymy by Pesenko 2004: 287).

Distribution. Jordan, Turkey, Armenia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Pakistan, Mongolia.

Figures

FIGURES 46a–e. Nomioides minutissima purpurascens Blüthgen, 1934. Holotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, lateral view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels.