Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870

Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2017, The genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) in Central Asia, Zootaxa 4324 (2), pp. 249-284 : 260-261

Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870

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Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870: 99 , ♀, ♂ (type locality: Sweden). Sphecodes bituberculatus Pérez 1903: 220 , ♀ (type locality: France).

Sphecodes opacifrons Pérez 1903: 219 ♀, ♂ (type locality: Spain).

Sphecodes puncticeps var. cretanus Strand 1921: 305 , ♀, ♂ (type locality: Crete).

Material examined. Uzbekistan: 1 ♀, Farab, 31.III.1912, KuleShov ( ZISP) ; 2 ♀, 5 ♂, Karshi, Khudoyzot, 20.V.2015, MP (FSCV). Kyrgyzstan: 1 ♂, Fergana MtS. , 10 km ESE Lay-Talaa, 1700 m, 16.VIII.1985, YP ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 5 km NE Kanysh-Kyya , 1800 m, 31.VIII.1988, YP ( ZISP) . Turkmenistan: 2 ♂, Kizil-Arvat, 1896, Ander ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Bagir, Ashkhabad, 2 1–23.IV.1929, AS ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Kara-Kala, 12.VI.1952, KryzhanovSkiy (ZISP); 2 ♂, 5 km S Tedzhen , 15.V.1963, AP ( ZISP) . Tajikistan: 2 ♀, AShkhabad, Feryuza, 13.V.1928, VG ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, Gissar Mts. , Khan-Takhta, 27.VIII.1933, Veltishchev ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Gissar, 5.VII.1935, VG (ZISP); 2 ♀, Kondara, Varzob, 1100 m, 5.VI.1937, VG (ZISP); 2 ♀, 2 ♂, Stalinabad [= Dushanbe] ( ZISP), 5.V.1944, 6.X. 1943, VP ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Dusti, 2–7.III.1944, Arnoldi (ZISP); 1 ♂, Gissar Mts. , Khodzha-obi-garm, 12.VIII.1944, М. NikolSkaya ( ZISP) ; 1 ♂, Peter I Range, Dashti-Gurk, 40 km ESE Komsomolabad , 1700 m, 31.VIII.1985, YP ( ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 10 km N Garavuti, Vakhsh River , 2.V.1987, AL ( FSCV).

Published records. Morawitz (1876: 258): UzbekiStan, TajikiStan; Mayer (1920: 150): “TurkeStan”; Popov (1967: 46, aS Sphecodes cristatus ): TajikiStan.

General distribution. Central ASia ( UzbekiStan, * KyrgyzStan, * TurkmeniStan, TajikiStan); Europe (north to Finland and Sweden), RuSSia (eaSt to Far EaSt), North Africa, Turkey, ISrael, Mongolia.

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 28. Males, gonostylus, dorsal and lateral views; 2, 3 — Sphecodes albilabris (Fabricius); 4, 5 — S. anatolicus Warncke; 6, 7 — S. crassus Thomson; 8, 9 — S. cristatus Hagens; 10, 11 — S. geoffrellus (Kirby); 12, 13 — S. ferruginatus Hagens; 14, 15 — S. gibbus (Linnaeus); 16, 17 — S. armeniacus Warncke; 18, 19 — S. ephippius (Linné); 20 — S. croaticus Meyer; 21, 22 — S. puncticeps Thomson; 23, 24 — S. saxicolus Warncke; 25, 26 — S. schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin; 27, 28 — S. pinguiculus Pérez. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 93 – 98. Males; 93, 94 — head, frontal view; 95 — head, dorsal view 96 — mesoscutum; 97, 98 — metasoma, T 1 – T 2; 93 — Sphecodes rufiventris (Panzer); 94 — S. tadschicus Blüthgen; 95 — S. puncticeps Thomson; 96 — S. scabricollis Wesmael; 97 — S. nurekensis Warncke; 98 — S. croaticus Meyer.