Sphecodes pectoralis 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

38. Sphecodes pectoralis Morawitz, 1876 Figure 33

Sphecodes pectoralis Morawitz, 1876: 256, ♀.

Type locality.

Shardara District of Turkistan Province (Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kazakhstan: coasts of Kosaral Lake; Kyzylkum [desert] near Chakany Well.

Lectotype.

♀, designation by Warncke 1992: 24, 24.[IV.1871] // Косаралъ [Kazakhstan, "Kosaral Lake", Shardara (= Chardara) District of Turkistan (= South-Kazakhstan) Province], ≈ 41°10'N, 68°06'E // Sphecodes pectoralis Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus, Warncke 1975 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotype.

1 ♀, 28.[VI.1871] // Кызылъкумъ [Kyzylkum] // Paralectotype Sphecodes pectoralis Mor., design. Warncke <red label, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Sphecodes pectoralis Morawitz, 1876.

Remarks.

Description of male. Meyer 1919: 126, as Sphecodes cristatus sensu Meyer (non Hagens 1882) (see Blüthgen 1924: 475).

Distribution.

South Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China (Gansu, Xinjiang) ( Astafurova et al. 2018a, b, 2020).

Figures

Figure 33. Sphecodes pectoralis Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A head, frontal view B habitus, lateral view and labels C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 2.0 mm (B, D), 1.0 mm (A, C).