Colletes eous Morice 1904

Colletes eous Morice 1904: 43 –44, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Helenendorf, Azerbaijan). Colletes cecrops Morice 1904: 44 –45, ♂ (type locality: Attica, Greece). Colletes porosicus Strand 1921: 306 –307, ♀ (type locality: Poros, Greece). Colletes illyricus Noskiewicz 1936: 120 –123, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Ragusa, Italy). Colletes dimidiatus eous: Warncke 1978: 339 .

Material examined. Kazakhstan. Aktyubins Prov.: 1 ♀, 60 km NNE Karabutak [60°28'E 50°25'N], 390 m, 27.VII.1987, YUP (ZISP); Karaganda Prov.: 1 ♀, Karaganda, Kent Mt. [73º07'E 49º48'N], 24.VII.1957, Sokolova (ZISP); 5 ♀, 38 ♂, Koksengir, S Zhana-Ark [65º82'E 44º35'N], 23.VI–18.VII.1959, AAP (ZISP); 1 ♂, Taldy- Manak, S Zhana-Ark [57º32'E 45º15'N], 6.VII.1959, AAP (ZISP); Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Prov.: 1 ♂, Ul´ken- Kaindy, Jabagly (E of Simkent) [70º15'E 42º15'N], 1800 m, R. Miyanaga (KUFJ). Uzbekistan. Samarkand Prov.: 7 ♂, Dzhuma [66º39'E 39º42'N], 13–21.VIII.1937, VBP (ZISP); Kashkadar’ya Prov.: 1 ♂, Kitab [66º52'E 39º08'N], 14.VIII.1939, Yu. Kostylev (ZMMU). Kyrgyzstan. Jalal-Abad Prov.: 1 ♂, Dzhalal-Abad, 18 km WSW Kazarman [73º48'E 41º22'N], 1550 m, M. Engel (AMNH); Issyk-Kul Prov.: 1 ♀, Issyk-Kul, 3 km NE of Barskoon [77º38'E 42º11'N], 1644 m, L. Best (PCLP); 1 ♀, Issyk-Kul, 5 km NE of Kaji-Say [77º13'E 42º10'N], 1626 m, L. Best (PCLP); 1 ♀, Issyk-Kul, Dzhargylchak [77º55'E 42º00'N], 30.VI.1954, D. Panfilov (ZMMU); 1 ♂, Tosor to Barkoon [77º29'E 42º09'N], J. Rozen, J. Bouseman (AMNH). Turk menistan. Balkan Prov.: 2 ♂, Ion-Dere, W Kopetdag [56º10'E 38º15'N], 20.VI.1952, AAP (ZISP); 1 ♀, Kara-kala [56º44'E 38º54'N], 15.VII.1953, AAP (ZISP); 1 ♂, Kosha-goi, B. Balkhany [54º32'E 39º39'N], 25.VI.1934, VBP (ZISP); 1 ♀, 8 ♂, Yarty-kala, Guvendere [56º14'E 38º10'N], 15.VIII.1934, VBP (ZISP); Akhal Prov.: 1 ♀, 6 km NW Kara-Kala [56º44'E 38º54'N], 25.VI.1955, AAP (ZISP); 3 ♂, 95 km E Kara-Kala, Sumbar River [57º22'E 38º25'N], 18–19.VI.1955, AAP (ZISP); 1 ♂, Kheirabad, Kopetdag [57º50'E 37º52'N], 28.VIII.1894, Golbeck’s coll. (ZISP). Tajikistan. Khatlon Prov.: 2 ♂, 15 km E Komsomolabad [69º57'E 38º52'N], 13.VII.1975, YUP (ZISP).

Published records. Noskiewicz (1936: 110); Popov (1952: 83): Turkmenistan; Kuhlmann (2005: 1363); Kuhlmann (2009a: 15); Proshchalykin & Kuhlmann (2012: 5): Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

General distribution. Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Tunesia, Libya, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, India.