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 text European Journal of Taxonomy 2020 2020-12-28 729 74 120 journal article 3508 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1195 c4ddeab6-e087-4585-99d7-ac9f7dc4a102 2118-9773 5705318 2FA17849-A224-4B0B-8894-EDB6ECBE029B 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 INDIA1 ♂ , 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.