Colletes flavicornis Morawitz 1876

Colletes flavicornis Morawitz1876: 267 –268, ♀, ♂ (lectotype –♂, designated here // gold circle // Kizylkum [Kazakhstan] // flavicornis Mor. Typ., handwritten by F. Morawitz // lectotype Colletes flavicornis Morawitz 1876 design. Kuhlmann et Proshchalykin 2013, typewritten red label, examined [ZISP]).

Material examined. Kazakhstan. Aktyubins Prov.: 1 ♂, Chelkar [57º10'E 50º17'N], 2.VI.1928, VBP (ZISP); Kyzylorda Prov.: 70 ♂, Aralskoe More (=Aralsk) [68º45'E 40º60'N], 31.V.1928, VBP (ZISP/IZKU); Akmolinsk Prov.: 16 ♂, Kokshetay Mt., Tersakkan River [70º12'E 53º05'N], 16.VI.1957, VRR (ZISP); Yuzhno- Kazakhstanskaya Prov.: 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Chardara [67º58'E 41º15'N], Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Kyzylkum [68º00'E 42º00'N], Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 2 ♀, 20 ♂, Lake Charbarinskoe, Chordara, Wof Tashkent [67º58'E 41º15'N], 180 m, OTA, RMU (KUFJ); 3 ♂, Komsomolskoe, Kyzylkum desert (N of Chardara) [67º58'E 41º15'N], OTA (KUFJ); Zhambyl Prov.: 1 ♀, 1 ♂, NW of Tatti, Muyunkum desert (N of Talas) [73º18'E 43º12'N], OTA, RMU (KUFJ/RCMK); 7 ♂, S of Balkhash Lake, 6 km E Mulaly [78º24'E 45º26'N], V. Gurko (OÖLM). Uzbekistan. Navoiy Prov.: 3 ♂, Bukantau Mts., Tshingildy [63º28'E 42º36'N], V. Gurko (OÖLM); Syrdar’ya Prov.: 1 ♂, Karmakchi [64º05'E 45º25'N], 23.V.1928, VBP (ZISP). Turkmenistan. Lebap Prov.: 2 ♀, Repetek [63º10'E 38º34'N], 13.V.1889, Morawitz’s coll. (ZISP); 1 ♂, 24.VI.1937, Yu. Kostylev (ZMMU); 36 ♂, 5.V.1978, YUP (ZISP); 1 ♂, Uch-Adzhi [62º48'E 38º05'N], 1–3.V.1929, ASH (ZISP). Tajikistan. Region of Republican Subordination: 3 ♂, Petra Velikogo Ridge, Zakh-Bursi [71º40'E 41º10'N], 5.VII.1913, Golbeck (IZKU/ZISP); Khatlon Prov.: 12 ♂, Kurgan-tyube [69º35'E 37º46'N], 24–25.VII.1913, Golbeck’s coll. (ZISP).

Published records. Noskiewicz (1936: 260); Kuhlmann (2005: 1371); Kuhlmann (2009a: 17): Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

General distribution. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, * Tajikistan.

Colletes kaline Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin sp. nov. (Figs 5 a–e)

Diagnosis. Colletes kaline is closely related to C. pallipes . With the latter and the females of C. rubripes and C. skorikowi, both from the C. squamosus -group, C. kaline shares the conspicuously raised clypeus (Fig. 5 c). However, C. kaline differs from these three species by its metasomal terga that are completely and densely covered with short appressed hairs hiding the sculpture of the terga (Fig. 5 a, e) while in the other species the discs of T2 – T6 are at least medially narrowly hairless.

Description. Female. Bl = 10.0–11.0 mm. Head. Head wider than long. Integument black except part of mandible, apical part of malar area, labrum and part of clypeus dark reddish-brown. Face except clypeus densely covered with long, whitish-grey, erect hairs (Fig. 5 c–d). Clypeus distinctly raised, convex and with a shallow longitudinal median depression, supraclypeal area triangular and convex in profile. Clypeus finely and scattered punctate (i = 3–4d), in median depression slightly coarser and denser (i = 1d); surface between punctures smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 d). Malar area medially about ½ as long as width of mandible base, partly finely punctate. Antenna black, ventrally bright yellowish-brown. Mesosoma. Integument black. Mesoscutal disc impunctate, smooth and shiny. Scutellum anteriorly impunctate with more dense punctation apically, surface smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 b). Mesoscutum, mesepisternum and propodeum covered with greyish to yellowish-white, erect hairs (Fig. 5 a, b). Wings. Very slightly yellowish; wing venation and stigma light yellowish-brown. Legs. Integument light to dark reddish-brown; tarsi partly yellowish-brown. Vestiture whitish to greyish, scopa white. Metasoma. Integument black to dark reddish-brown, depressed apical tergal margins yellowish translucent (Fig. 5 e). Terga densely covered with short, appressed white to yellowish-white hairs; on T1 anteriorly with a few long, erect white hairs; apical tergal hair band moderately wide and often indistinguishable from the pilosity of the discs (Fig. 5 a, e). Terga densely and very finely punctate (i <d), between punctures smooth and shiny (Fig. 5 e).

Male. Unknown.

Type material (4 specimens). Holotype, female, Turkmenistan: Lebap Prov., Repetek (63°10'E 38°34'N), 24.VI.1937, Yu. Kostylev (ZMMU).

Paratype: 1 ♀, same dates as holotype (RCMK); 2 ♀, Turkmenistan: Repetek (63°10'E 38°34'N), 13.– 18.V.1977, V. Kaplin (IBSS, RCMK).

Etymology. The name highlights the fact that in this species only the female is known. In Masematte “ Kaline ” means “girl” and is here used as a noun in apposition. Masematte is a regional sociolect or social dialect that was exclusively used in the poorer urban quarters of the city of Münster (NW Germany). It belongs to Rotwelsch which is a secret language of thieves, beggars and hustlers (Thieves´cant or Rogues´cant) primarily spoken in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

General distribution. Only known from the type locality in Turkmenistan.

Floral hosts. unknown.

Seasonal activity (first–last observations). V–VI.