Colletes stachi Noskiewicz, 1958

Proshchalykin, M. Yu. & Kuhlmann, M., 2018, New records of rarely collected bees of the genus Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) from Asia and the Caucasus, Far Eastern Entomologist 355, pp. 1-12 : 7

Colletes stachi Noskiewicz, 1958

Colletes stachi Noskiewicz, 1958: 509–512 , ♀, ♂ (holotype: ♂, Tajikistan, Dshilikul ,

30.IX.1931, leg. N. Fursov, MNHW).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Uzbekistan: Uchkyzyl , Kattakum [67°17'E

37°21'N], 8-11.IX 2017, 1 ♀, 5 ♂, M. Proshchalykin [ FCTB]; Mirishkorskiy distr .,

Sundukli desert [64°32'E 38°57'N], 21-22.IX 2017, 1 ♀, 4 ♂, M. Proshchalykin

[FCTB].

DISTRIBUTION. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

REMARKS. This rarely collected species has been known in Uzbekistan only from two females collected in Pungan, Eastern Kuraminskii Ridge (Kuhlmann &

Proshchalykin, 2015a: 97). Colletes stachi apparently is a rare example of a species that is only active in late summer / early autumn.