Sphecodes grahami Cockerell, 1922

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Niu, Ze-qing & Zhu, Chao-dong, 2018, New records of bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille in the Palaearctic part of China (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), ZooKeys 792, pp. 15-44 : 27-28

Sphecodes grahami Cockerell, 1922 Figure 52

Sphecodes grahami Cockerell, 1922: 12 (holotype: ♀, China, Sichuan: Suifu, Graham coll.; USNM);

Material examined.

CHINA: Shanxi, 1 ♀, Xiexian [34°48'N, 111°36'E], Zhongtiao Shan Mts., 22-24.V.1996, leg. JH (PCMS); Shaanxi, 2 ♀♀, Gangui [36°48'N, 110°18'E], 35 km NE Yanan, 17-18.V.1996, leg. JH (PCMS).

Published records.

Cockerell 1922: 12 (Shanghai); Ascher and Pickering 2018 (Jilin, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Xizang, Guandong).

Distribution.

China (Jilin, Hebei, *Shanxi, *Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, Guandong).

Remark ..

The female of this species is challenging to distinguish from West-Palaearctic S. ephippius ( Linné, 1767).