Sphecodes pellucidus Smith 1845

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2014, The bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 of the Russian Far East, with key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae), Zootaxa 3887 (5), pp. 501-528 : 518

Sphecodes pellucidus Smith 1845

(Figs 15, 69, 110a)

Sphecodes pellucidus Smith 1845: 1014 , ♂, ♀ (type locality: England); Quest 2009: 205; Proshchalykin & Quest 2009: 245; Proshchalykin 2012: 457.

Sphecodes pilifrons Thomson 1870: 99 , ♀ (type locality: Sweden).

Sphecodes brevicornis Hagens 1874: 39 , ♂ (type locality: Germany).

Sphecodes volatilis Smith 1879: 26 , ♂ (type locality: Transbaikalia, Russia).

Sphecodes pellucidus var. algirus Alfken 1914 ; 195, ♀ (type locality: Algeria).

Sphecodes pellucidus var. hybridus Blüthgen 1924: 516 , ♀ (type locality: North China).

Sphecodes pellucidus var. niveipennis Meyer 1925: 7 , ♂ (type locality: North China, Turkmenistan).

Material examined. Russia. Primorskiy Terr.: 2 ♀, Lazovskiy Natere Reserve, 27.V–20.VI.2001, M. Quest (M. Schwarz det. 2007); 1 ♀, Lazo, 20.IV.2002, M. Quest (M. Schwarz det. 2007); Jewish AP: 4 ♀, Leninskii, Solonechnaya River, 13.VI.2005, MP; Amurskaya Prov.: 2 ♀, between Malaya Pera River and Bolshoy Ergel, 3- 8.VI.1958, 2 ♀, 20-26.VI.1958; 2 ♀, 4-9.IX.1958, G. Zinovjev; 3 ♀, Klimoutsy, 45 km W Svobodnyi, 4- 14.VI.1959, G. Zinovjev; 1 ♀, Arkhara, 9.VI.1987, AL; 1 ♂, 30 km SW Arkhara, Volnoe, 21-23.VII.2003, SB; 1 ♀, 2 ♂, Ekimchan, 11.VIII.2007, V. Bezborodov; Khabarovsk Terr.: 1 ♀, Pravaya Bureya River, 954m, 5.VII.2010, E. Koshkin.

Distribution. Russia: Primorskiy Terr. ( Quest 2009), Jewish AP, *Amurskaya Prov., *Khabarovsk Terr., Transbaikalia, European part ( Osytshnjuk et al. 1978); North China, Turkmenistan, North Africa, Europe (north to 66°), Turkey.