Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski, 1893

Proshchalykin, M. Yu., Astafurova, Yu. V., Levchenko, T. V., Shlyakhtenok, A. S. & Schwarz, M., 2019, The species-group names of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes) described from Crimea, North Caucasus, European part of Russia and Ural. Part III. Families Melittidae and Apidae (Except Bombus Latreille and Apis Linnaeus), Far Eastern Entomologist 396, pp. 17-44 : 36

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scientific name	Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski, 1893
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Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski, 1893 View in CoL

Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski, 1893: 180 View in CoL , ♀, ♂ (lectotype: ♂, desegnated here, golden circle // “Ornb.” [Orenburg, Russia] // Lectotypus, ♂, Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski,

1893, design. Proshchalykin et al., 2019; IZKP).

CURRENT STATUS. Valid species (Lieftinck 1980).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: south of European part, Ural; Uzbekistan.

REMARK. The species was described from the specimens of both sexes collected in

“ Orenbourg, Astrakhan (Ryn-Peski), Tachkend”. There are four specimens in IZKP from this locality (2 ♂ from Orenburg, ♀ from Astrakhan, and ♀ from Tachkend ), which corresponds to the original description of Eversmann. One of this specimens (male) is designated here as a lectotype of Melecta eversmanni Radoszkowski ( Fig. 19 View Figs 1–24 ) .