Sphecodes laticeps Meyer, 1920

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Niu, Ze-Qing, Orr, Michael C. & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2020, New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae) from Southern and South-Western China, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79, pp. 145-162 : 145

Sphecodes laticeps Meyer, 1920

Sphecodes laticeps Meyer, 1920: 121, ♀, ♂ (lectotype: ♂, designated by Astafurova et al. 2020: 64, Formosa [Taiwan], Takao, 8.12.1909, H. Sauter leg., ZMNB).

Material examined.

Yunnan: Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve , Mengsonson Township , Danuoyou [22.2069N, 100.6376E], 770 m, 10.XI.2008, (1 ♀); 20.XI.2008, (1 ♀), leg. A. Weigel [IZCAS]; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve , Mandian (22.1305N, 100.6681E), 753 m, 10.X.2008, (1 ♀), leg. A. Weigel; 20.XI.2008, (1 ♀), leg. Ling-Zeng Meng [IZCAS]; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve , Naban (22.1585N, 100.6652E), 709 m, 6.VI.2008, (2 ♀), 15.VI.2008, (1 ♀), leg. A. Weigel [IZCAS]; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve , Mengsonson Township , Zhongzhichang (22.1585N, 100.6652E), (1 ♀), 12.V.2008, leg. Ling-Zeng Meng [IZCAS]; Simao City, Menglian County, Meng’ananka (24.1240N, 120.6750E), 3.X.2007, (1 ♀), leg. Rui Zhang [IZCAS]; Xishuangbanna, Yiwu (24.1240N, 120.6750E), 1300 m, 2.XII.1958, (1 ♂), leg. Shu-Yong Wang [IZCAS]; Hekou (22.5355N, 103.9454E), 200-300 m, 8-11.VI.1956, (3 ♂), leg. D. Panfilov; 8.V.1956, (1 ♀), leg. Ke-Ren Huang [ZISP] .

Published records.

Meyer 1920: 121 (Taiwan).

Variation.

The size of the medial glabrous spot on the male tyloids is quite variable. Female specimens from Yunnan exhibit variation in the degree of vertex elevation (distance from top of head to upper margin of a lateral ocellus from 1.2 to 1.6 lateral ocellar diameters as seen in frontal view); specimens with a more elevated vertex have sparser punctures in the ocello-ocular area.

Distribution.

China (*Yunnan, Taiwan); Thailand, Vietnam.