Sphecodes cristatus Hagens, 1882

Astafurova, Yu. V., Proshchalykin, M. Yu. & Engel, M. S., 2018, The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Kazakhstan, Far Eastern Entomologist 369, pp. 1-48 : 11-12

Sphecodes cristatus Hagens, 1882

DIAGNOSIS. This species is similar to S. olivieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau,

1825 and S. pectoralis Morawitz, 1876 owing to the possession of a sharp, longitudinal carina on the vertex and in sharing a similar male gonostylar shape ( Figs 18,

19), but differs from both by more developed tyloids on male flagellomers (semicircular across basal 1/3–1/2 of flagellomeres versus 1/7–1/ 5 in S. olivieri and S.

pectoralis); the lack of appressed, dense pubescence on the female face; and the fine punctation of the female metasomal T1 (3–10 μm versus 10–30 μm in S.

olivieri and S. pectoralis ).

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing with basal vein weakly curved; costal margin with 8 hamuli. Female. Total body length 6.0–8.0 mm. Head strongly transverse,

1.20–1.25 times as wide as long; vertex weakly elevated. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum relatively sparsely punctate, medially with punctures (15–30 μm) separated by mostly 1–3 puncture diameters. Metasomal T1 (including marginal zone) indistinctly punctate, with shallow and fine (3–10 μm), but often numerous punctures;

T1–T5 and legs red, sometimes T4, T5 and legs dark. Male. Total body length 7.0–

10.0 mm. Head weakly transverse, 1.1 times as wide as long; vertex strongly elevated;

tyloids, at least from F4 onward, semicircular across basal 1/3–1/2 of flagellomeres.

Mesoscutum densely punctate, with punctures (25–40 μm) separated by at most a puncture diameter. Metasomal T1 with marginal zone very finly and indistinctly punctate; T1 apically red, T2 and T3 red; gonocoxite dorsally without impression

( Fig. 7 ).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Kazakhstan. West Kazakhstan: Uralsk [Oral], 18.VII

1897, 1 ♀, Berezovskiy [ZISP]; Yanvarztevo, Ural River, 3.VII, 11.IX 1949 , 3 ♂,

VR [ZISP]; Kyzylorda: Kazalinsk, 25.V 1928, 3 ♀, N. Olenev, VP [ZISP]; Pavlodar:

Chernoretzkiy, 21.IX 1928, 1 ♀, Belizin [ZMMU]; East Kazakhstan: Semipalatinsk

[ Semey], 1 ♂, F. Morawitz’s coll. [ZISP]; Ayaguz River , 40 km SE Targabatay ,

1400 m, 1.VIII 1986, 2 ♂, YP [ZISP]; Almaty: 3 km S Issik , 22-23.VI 1992, 1 ♀ ,

JH [PCMS]; Alma-Ata, 25.VI 1992, 2 ♀; idem, 1.VI.1994, 3 ♀, JH, KD [PCMS] ;

Talas Alatau Mts , near Zhabagly, 3.VII 1998, 1 ♀, VK [ZISP] .

DISTRIBUTION. * Kazakhstan (West Kazakhstan, Kyzylorda, Pavlodar, East

Kazakhstan, Almaty), Russia, Mongolia, Central Asia, China (Beijing), Europe (north to Sweden), Caucasus, Turkey.

REMARK. Meyer’s (1919) record of S. cristatus Hagens, 1882 from Kazakhstan

(Zhambul) was based on a misidentification and actually refers to S. pectoralis (refer to Blüthgen, 1924).

Figures

Figs 14–19. Genitalia, males, dorsal view. 14 – Sphecodes intermedius; 15 – S. longulus;

Figs 2–7. Genitalia, males, dorsal view. 2 – Sphecodes albilabris; 3 – S. alternatus; 4 – S.