Sphecodes rufithorax Morawitz, 1876

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko, ZooKeys 994, pp. 35-104 : 35

39. Sphecodes rufithorax Morawitz, 1876 Figure 34

Sphecodes rufithorax Morawitz, 1876: 255, ♀, ♂.

Type locality.

Bairkum (Chimkent Province, Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kazakhstan: Bayrakum [Bairkum]; steppe between Syr-Darya River and Tashkent.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Warncke 1992: 24, 17. [V.1871] // Байракумъ [Kazakhstan, Chimkent Province, Bairkum, Syr-Darya River, 42°05'N, 68°10'E] // Sphecodes rufithorax F. Moraw., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Warncke, 1975 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(2 ♀, 1 ♂). 1 ♀, Байракумъ [Bairkum] // кол.[лекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Sphecodes rufithorax F. Moraw., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // F. Morawitz det., Typ.; 1 ♀, 20.[V.1871] // Степь м.[ежду] С.[ыр] д.[арьей] и Т.[ашкентом] [Steppe between Syrdarya River and Tashkent] // Sphecodes rufithorax Mor., ♂ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Sphec. rufithorax Mor., design. Warncke, [19]92 <red label, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, the same labels [ZISP].

Current status.

Sphecodes olivieri Lepeletier, 1825 (synonymised by Warncke 1992: 24).

Distribution.

North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Israel, Jordan, South Europe, Russia (south of European part), Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, NW China ( Astafurova et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 34. Sphecodes rufithorax Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view B head, frontal view C metasoma, dorsal view D vertex, dorso-lateral view E labels F mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A-C, F), 0.5 mm (D).