Sphecodes nigripennis 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

37. Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876 Figure 32

Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876: 257, ♀.

Type locality.

Shardara District of Turkistan Province (Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kazakhstan: coasts of Kosaral Lake; Uzbekistan: Khodzhaduk [= Khozyay-Dun].

Lectotype.

♀, designation by Warncke 1992: 30, 24.IV.1871 [the original blue data label was damaged] // Косаралъ [Kazakhstan, "Kosaral Lake", Shardara (= Chardara) District of Turkistan (= South-Kazakhstan) Province, ≈ 41°10'N, 68°06'E] // Sphecodes nigripennis Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus, Warncke 1975 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotype.

1 ♀, 21.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley] // Paralectotype Sphecodes nigripennis Mor., design. Warncke <red label, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Sphecodes gibbus (Linnaeus 1758) (synonymised by Blüthgen 1923b: 510).

Distribution.

North Africa, Europe (north to 63°), Israel, Jordan, Russia (east to Yakutia), Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, NW China, India ( Warncke 1992, Bogusch and Straka 2012, Astafurova et al. 2019).

Figures

Figure 32. Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 2.0 mm (A, D), 1.0 mm (B, C).