Sphecodes turanicus Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2017

Astafurova, Yu. V., Proshchalykin, M. Yu. & Engel, M. S., 2018, The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Kazakhstan, Far Eastern Entomologist 369, pp. 1-48 : 41-42

Sphecodes turanicus Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2017

DIAGNOSIS. This species is similar to small Palaearctic species with simple mandibles which lack an inner tooth (refer to Diagnosis of S. armeniacus , above).

The female differs from these species in the finely (3–5 μm) punctate T2 and T3

(5–15 μm in other species). The female is similar to S. armeniacus by dense pubescence body icluding appressed, snow-white pubescence obscuring integument on face (below the antennal toruli), gena and mesepisternum (this pubescence is sparse and not obscuring integument in other species), but differs from this species by densely punctate mesoscutum with punctures separated by at most a puncture diameter (versus sparsely and irregularly punctate mesoscutum with punctures separated 1–5 puncture diameters in S. armeniacus ). The male is closest to S. longulus , S. trjapitzini , and S. hirtellus in sharing similar genitalic form with short, oval gonostylus, but differs from S. longulus and S. trjapitzini by stronger developed tyloids on the flagellomeres extending across 1/2–3/4 of ventral flagellar surfaces (versus those at most 1/ 2 in S. longulus and S. trjapitzini .),

and differs from S. hirtellus by reticulate-rugose propodeal trianle (smoothed with weak wrinkles in S. hirtellus ) and finely punctate metasomal terga (5 μm versus 10

μm in S. hirtellus ).

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing with basal vein strongly curved; costal margin with 5–6 hamuli. Female. Total body length 4.5–6.0 mm. Head strongly transverse 1.2–1.3 times as wide as long; vertex not elevated; antenna and mandible yellow or reddish; F1–F3 transverse, 0.6–0.7 times as long as wide. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum densely punctate (15–30 μm), with punctures separated by at most a puncture diameter. Metasomal terga (including T1) with dense microscopical setae pore (3–5 μm). T1–T3 yellow or reddish; pygidial plate 1.2 as wide as metabasitarsus. Male. Total body length 4.0–5.0 mm. Head transverse, 1.1–

1.2 times as wide as long; tyloids on flagellomeres semioval-shaped, variable in length and extending across 1/2–3/4 of ventral flagellar surfaces. Mesoscutum with punctures (15–30 μm) separated by about a puncture diameter, becoming denser peripherally. Metasomal T1 impunctate, T2–T3 finely (5 μm), but distinctly punctate. T1–T2 red, T3 red basally; gonocoxite dorsally without impression;

gonostylus as in Fig. 36 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Kazakhstan. Kyzylorda: Basykara env., near Syr

Darya River, 15-19.V 2011, 1 ♀, K. Tomkovich [ZMMU]; Almaty: near Ili, Ili

River, 23.V 1970, 2 ♀, TM [ZISP] (paratypes of S. turanicus ); Iliysk, 29.V 1953, 1

♀, LZ [ZMMU] (paratype of S. turanicus ).

PUBLISHED RECORDS. Astafurova and Proshchalykin (2017b: 275) recorded this species from Almaty Province.

DISTRIBUTION. Kazakhstan (*Kyzylorda, Almaty), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

administrative regions (numbers refer to those listed in Fig. 1 ). Symbols: ○ published records; ● current data.

Figures

Figs 32–38. Genitalia, males, dorsal view (32–36), lateral view (37, 38). 32 – Sphecodes

Fig. 1. Map of Central Asia with particular focus on Kazakhstan and insert showing the