Sphecodes ferruginatus Hagens, 1882

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 : 14-15

Sphecodes ferruginatus Hagens, 1882

DIAGNOSIS. This species belongs to the Palaearctic hyalinatus species-group

( S. ferruginatus Hagens, 1882 , S. hyalinatus Hagens, 1882 , S. maruyamanus Tsuenki,

1983, S. murotai Tsuneki, 1983 , S. tanoi Tsuneki, 1983 ) with the pronotum rounded between the dorsal and lateral surfaces. The male differs from other species of the group by its unique gonostylar shape which is long and trapezoidal ( Fig. 9 ), and by the short tyloids (covering at most one quarter of the flagellar surfaces, versus more than one third in other species). The female is similar to the eastern Palaearctic S.

murotai and S. tanoi , but differs from both by the elevated vertex (not elevated in S.

murotai and S. tanoi ), and can easily be distinguished from S. hyalinatus by its shiny, coarsely reticulate-rugose ventral portions of the mesosoma (dull, finely reticulate-rugulose in S. hyalinatus ).

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing with basal vein strongly curved; costal margin with 5–6 hamuli. Female. Total body length 6.0–9.0 mm. Head transverse,

1.20–1.25 times as wide as long; clypeus densely punctate, punctures separated by less than a puncture diameter. Mesoscutum with punctures separated by 1–4 puncture diameters. Metasomal T1 impunctate; T2–T3 indistinctly and very finely punctate;

T1–T3 red; pygidial plate 0.7 times as wide as metabasitarsus. Male. Total body length 6.0–9.0 mm. Head transverse, about 1.15 times as wide as long; tyloids covering at most one quarter ventral surface of flagellomeres. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum densely punctate, punctures separated by less than a puncture diameter to contiguous. Metasomal T1 impunctate; T2–T3 indistinctly and very finely punctate; T1–T3 red; gonocoxite dorsally with impression; gonostylus long,

trapezoidal.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Kazakhstan. East Kazakhstan: 40 km SE Targabatay , 1400 m, 1.VIII 1986, 1 ♂, YP [ZISP] ; Almaty: Zailiysk Alatau Mts , Malyi

Almmaatin River , 6.VII 1898, 1 ♂ , Kostylev [ZMMU]; near Almaty, V 1936, 1 ♀ ,

Shaydurov; idem, 25.IV 1953, 1 ♀, G.A. Viktorov [ZMMU]; Almaty NR, Talchara

River, 1700 m, 8.VII 1979, 1 ♀, DK [ZISP]; Almaty, Medeo , 27.VI 1995, 1 ♀, JH

[PCMS].

DISTRIBUTION. * Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan, Almaty), Russia, Europe

(north to 66° latitude), Caucasus, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Japan.

REMARK. In the southern parts of Kazakhstan this species principally occurs in the mountains.

Figures

Figs 8–13. Genitalia, males, dorsal view. 8 – Sphecodes ephippius; 9 – S. ferruginatus;