New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from the Himalayas
Author
Astafurova, Yulia
E0C904B0-6727-4F5C-8F5D-3CD1BFF32F3B
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (ZISP), Saint Petersburg, Russia. & Yulia.
Yulia.Astafurova@zin.ru
Author
Proshchalykin, Maxim
6B6EEC64-E26C-4E34-A0C9-8DC198B881ED
Federal Scientific Centre for East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCBV), Vladivostok, Russia.
proshchalikin@biosoil.ru
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-12-28
729
74
120
journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1195
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Sphecodes gibbus
(
Linnaeus, 1758
)
Figs 2E
,
3I
Sphex gibba
Linnaeus, 1758: 571
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Sweden
).
Apis glabra
Füessly, 1775: 51
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Switzerland
).
Andrena ferruginea
Olivier, 1789: 139
,
nom. nov.
for
Nomada gibba
Fabricius, 1775
(nom. praeocc.,
nec
Linnaeus, 1758
).
Apis gibbosa
Christ, 1791: 177
,
nom. nov.
for
Nomada gibba
Fabricius, 1775
(nom. praeocc., nec
Linnaeus, 1758
).
Melitta sphecoides
Kirby, 1802: 46
,
♀
(
type
locality:
England
).
Melitta picea
Kirby, 1802: 48
, ♂ (
type
locality:
England
).
Andrena austriaca
Fabricius, 1804: 325
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Denmark
) (nom. praeocc., nec Panzer, 1798).
Dichroa analis
Illiger, 1806: 48
, nomen novum for
Nomada gibba
Fabricius, 1775
(nom. praeocc., nec
Linnaeus, 1758
).
Sphecodes apicatus
Smith, 1853: 36
,
♀
(
syntypes
:
♀
,
India
, Simla; NHMUK). Synonymized by
Blüthgen 1927: 27
.
Sphecodes nigripennis
Morawitz, 1876: 257
,
♀
(type locality:
Kazakhstan
).
Sphecodes indicus
Bingham, 1898: 123
, pl. a, fig. 10, ♂.
Syn. nov.
Sphecodes sutor
Nurse, 1903: 538
,
♀
(
syntypes
:
♀♀
,
India
,
Jammu and Kashmir
; NHMUK).
Synonymized by
Blüthgen 1927: 27
.
Sphecodes gibbus
var.
rufispinosus
Meyer, 1920: 113
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Spain
).
Sphecodes gibbus
var.
turkestanicus
Meyer, 1920: 113
,
♀
, ♂ (
type
locality:
Uzbekistan
, “Golodnaja
Steppe”;
China
: Jarkand,
Xinjiang
).
Sphecodes castilianus
Blüthgen, 1924: 473
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Portugal
).
Sphecodes lustrans
Cockerell, 1931b: 411
, ♂ (
type
locality:
Morocco
).
Sphecodes angarensis
Cockerell, 1937: 3–4
,
♀
(
type
locality:
Russia
,
Irkutsk Prov.
).
Sphecodes pergibbus
Blüthgen, 1938: 50
,
♀
, ♂ (
type
locality:
Cyprus
).
Sphecodes indicus
–
Saini & Rathor 2012: 162
. —
Rajkumar & Dey 2016: 1841
.
Sphecodes gibbus
–
Ascher & Pickering 2020
: map.
Diagnosis and descriptive notes
See
Astafurova
et al
. (2018a: 17)
.
Material examined
INDIA
•
1 ♂
,
holotype
of
Sphecodes indicus
Bingham, 1898
; “Type // Simla, 5. 97. //
Sphecodes indicus
(Bingh)
// B.M.Type HYM 17a560”;
NHMUK 013380329
•
1 ♀
;
Simla
;
May 1898
;
C.G. Nurse
leg.;
NHMUK 013380335
.
Distribution
Himalayas:
India
(
Jammu and Kashmir
,
Himachal Pradesh
); North Africa, Europe (north to 63° latitude),
Russia
(east to Yakutia),
Turkey
,
Israel
,
Jordan
, Caucasus,
Kazakhstan
, Central Asia,
Iran
,
Mongolia
,
China
(
Xinjiang
).
Remarks
The record of
S. indicus
from Mussoorie (
Uttarakhand
,
India
) by
Saini & Rathor (2012: 162)
is doubtful.