Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson, 1870

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 : 31-32

Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson, 1870

DIAGNOSIS. This species is similar to small Palaearctic species with simple mandibles (refer to Diagnosis of S. armeniacus , above), but the male differs from these by its larger membranous portion to the gonostylus ( Fig. 28 ) and the female differs by the following combination of characters: head strongly transverse, 1.2–

1.3 times as wide as long (1.15 times as wide as long in S. longulus ), ocello-ocular area with punctures separated by 0.5–1 puncture diameters (a few diameters in S.

longuloides S. longulus and S. trjapitzini ); face below antenal torili with sparse pubescense not obscuring integument (with dense pubescence obscuring integument in S. armeniacus and S. turanicus ); pygidial plate as wide as metabasitarsus (wider than metabasitarsus in S. hirtellus and S. armeniacus ).

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing with basal vein strongly curved; costal margin with 5–6 hamuli. Female. Total body length 5.0–8.0 mm. Head strongly transverse, 1.2–1.3 times as wide as long; clypeus with punctures separated by at most a puncture diameter; F1 and F2 transverse, about 0.6–0.7 times as long as wide;

F3 slightly shorter than wide. Mesoscutum with punctures (15–30 μm) separated by at most two puncture diameters. Metasomal T1 impunctate; anterior half of T2 and

T3 discs usually distinctly and densely punctate (10–15 μm), sparsely or impunctate along marginal zones; T1–T3 red; pygidial plate as wide as metabasitarsus. Male.

Total body length 5.0– 7.5 mm. Head transverse, 1.15–1.18 times as wide as long;

tyloids shallow, semi-oval, extending beyond 1/4–1/3 of ventral surface of flagellomeres. Mesoscutum with punctures (15–30 μm) separated by at most 1–2 puncture diameters. Metasomal T1 impunctate or with a few fine punctures; T2 relatively coarsely and densely punctate on anterior half of disc, but impunctate along marginal zone; T1 and T2 red, T3 red basally; gonocoxite dorsally without impression; membranous portion of gonostylus triangular.

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

18.VIII 1897, 3 ♂, Berezovskiy [ZISP]; idem , 10.VII 1908, 1 ♀, 3 ♂, Borodin,

Uvarov [ZISP]; Yanvartsevo, Ural River, 16.V–2.IX 1949, 6 ♀, 5 ♂, VR [ZISP] ;

Chinarev , 31.VIII 1949 1 ♂ , Arnoldi [ZISP]; Solyanka River, 13.IX 1949, 2 ♂ ,

Arnoldi ; Kharkin, Ural River, 22.VII, 31.VII 1951, 3 ♂, VR, VP [ZISP]; 110 km

ESE Dzhambeyta, 30.VIII 1987, 1 ♂, YP [ZISP]; Akmola: Kokshetau Mts , Terisakkan River, 8.VI 1957, 2 ♀, VT [ZISP]; 5-10 km W Maliy Tengiz Lake, 18.IX

2004, 1 ♂, DK [ZISP]; Karagandy: Koksengir, 20.VII 1959, 1 ♂, Kurchinskaya

[ ZISP]; Zhambyl : Balkhash Lake, 30 km NNW Mynaral, 6-8.IX 1988, 1 ♀, 2 ♂, YP

[ ZISP]; Pavlodar : 25 km SSE Ekibastuz, 290 m, 22.VIII 1987, 1 ♀, YP [ZISP] ;

East Kazakhstan: 20 km ENE Charsk , 600 m, 17.VII 1987, 2 ♂, YP [ZISP]; 20 km

SE Aksay, 16-19.VI 1992, 1 ♀, JH [PCMS]; Almaty: near Almaty, VI 1936, 1 ♂ ,

Birulya [ZISP]; 40 km E Alma-Ata, Fabrichny, 23.VI 1992, 1 ♀, MH [PCMS]; 15

km S Alma-Ata, 27.V 1994, 1 ♀, KD [PCMS]; Georgievka, 16.VI 1995, 1 ♀, JH

[PCMS]; 30 km E Chilik [Shelek], 8.VIII 1999, 1 ♂, VK [ZISP] ; 30 km NW Kapshagay [Qapshaghay], Ili River , 19.V 2002, 1 ♀, VK [ZISP] .

DISTRIBUTION. * Kazakhstan (West Kazakhstan, Akmola, Karagandy, Zhambyl, Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan, Almaty), Central Asia, Mongolia, Russia, Europe

(north to Finland and Sweden), Caucasus, Turkey, Israel, North Africa.

Figures

Figs 26–31. Genitalia, males, dorsal view. 26 – Sphecodes pellucidus; 27 – S. pinguiculus;