Colletes maidli Noskiewicz 1936

Colletes maidli Noskiewicz 1936: 166 –168, plate IV, fig. 1, plate XXVIII, figs 7–8, ♀, ♂ (syntypes: 15 ♀, 27 ♂, NE Italy, Spain, Syria, Azerbaijan).

Colletes lebedewi Noskiewicz 1936: 163 –166, plate III, fig. 6, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Ukraine, Abkhazia).

Material examined. Armenia: 1 ♂, Erevan [44°31'E 40°11'N], 21.VI.1985, VAR (ZISP); Azerbaijan: 2 ♂, Astara, N Astara coast [48°45'E 38°25'N], 7.VI.1996, M. Hauser (coll. Burger) .

Published records. Noskiewicz 1936 (Azerbaijan: Leukoran; Abkhazia: Sukhum); Aliev 1985a (as C. lebedewi) (Azerbaijan: Gandza, Kutkashen); Aliev & Kirschey 2010 (as C. lebedewi) (Azerbaijan: Salyan, Bandovan); Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2014b (Russia: Krasnodar).

General distribution. Abkhazia, *Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine.