Sphecodes schenckii Hagens, 1882

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Schwarz, Maximilian, 2019, The distribution of the genus Sphecodes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding countries with description of hitherto unknown female of S. atlanticus Warncke, 1992 and male of S. dathei Schwarz, 2010, ZooKeys 872, pp. 13-40 : 33

Sphecodes schenckii Hagens, 1882

Sphecodes schenckii Hagens, 1882: 217, ♂ (holotype: ♂, no locality, Rudow leg. [see Blüthgen 1923: 444]; MNHB).

Sphecodes sulcicollis Pérez, 1903; S. caspicus Meyer, 1920 (Synonyms).

Diagnosis.

See Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017b: 274.

Material examined.

JORDAN: 1 ♂, NW Ajlun, 850 m, 20.V.2007, Z. Kejval (OLBL/PCMS); 1 ♀, 10 km N Petra, 3.V.1996, M. Halada (OLBL/PCMS); SYRIA: 3 ♂♂, 20 km NE Latakia, 25.V.1996, M. Halada (OLBL/PCMS).

Published records.

Warncke 1992: 27 (Israel, as Sphecodes schenckii caspicus Meyer); Ascher and Pickering 2019 (Israel).

Distribution.

Israel, *Jordan, *Syria; Europe (north to Germany), Russia (European part), Turkey, Caucasus,? Iran.