Megachile farinosa Smith, 1853

Byvaltsev, A. M., Belova, K. A., Danilov, Yu. N., Molodtsov, V. V. & Proshchalykin, M. Yu., 2018, Megachilid bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of the West Siberian Plain to the eastward of Irtysh River, Far Eastern Entomologist 364, pp. 10-28 : 19-20

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25221/fee.364.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7165972
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scientific name	Megachile farinosa Smith, 1853
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Megachile farinosa Smith, 1853 View in CoL

Megachile derasa: Shumakova et al., 1982: 166 View in CoL (Altai Terr.).

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. Russia. Altai Terr.: Bezrukavka , 23.VIII 1952, 1 ♀ [ISEA] .

DISTRIBUTION IN WEST SIBERIA.?Al.

REMARK. There are two specimens of Megachile derasa Gerstaecker, 1869 (currently a junior synonym of M. farinosa ) listed without its sex in Shumakova et al. (1982). Only one of them (a female) collected near Bezrukavka (Altai Terr.) was found in the ISEA collection. We examined this specimen and agreed with the previous determination. The documented range of this species is Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Iraq and Iran (Asher & Pickering, 2018).

Thus, the observation of this species so far to the east is a very surprising. Because the data in Shumakova et al. (1982) raise a lot of questions, M. derasa is not included in a recent list of Russian Aculeata (Antropov et al., 2017). However, there are no reasons to exclude this species from the fauna of West Siberia, so the record is treated as needing verification.