Sphecodes miniatus 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 : 23-24

Sphecodes miniatus Hagens, 1882

DIAGNOSIS. This species belongs to the miniatus species-group, with the same length and transverse F1–F 3 in females. Among species of this group S. miniatus is most close to S. marginatis and S. nomioidis as they have a similar sculpture and stricture of the body. So females of this three species are challenging to distinguish;

on average S. miniatus T2 sparser punctate on posterior half with punctures usually not reach marginal zone (but not always, especially in specimens from Kazakhstan).

Reilable determination of this species is possible in male, which differs from other species of the group by the large, trapezoidal membranous portion of gonostylus

( Fig. 16 ) (smaller or triangular in other species).

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing with basal vein strongly curved; costal margin with 5–6 hamuli. Female. Total body length 4.0–6.0 mm. Head transverse,

1.15–1.23 times as wide as long; clypeus sparsely punctate, punctures separated by

0.5–2 puncture diameters; F3 transverse, 0.6–0.7 times as long as wide, equal to F1.

Mesoscutum sparsely punctate, with punctures separated by 1–4 puncture diameters.

Metasomal T1 impunctate or with few fine punctures; T2 with fine and dense punctures on anterior half and usually sparsely and irregularly punctate on posterior half, punctures not reach marginal zone; T1–T3 red; pygidial plate as wide as metabasitarsus. Male. Total body length 4.0–6.0 mm. Head transverse, about 1.1–1.15

times as wide as long; tyloids on apical flagellomeres covering more than three quarters flagellar ventral surfaces, sometimes extending entire ventral surface. Mesoscutum with punctures (at least medially) separated by more than puncture diameter; punctation of terga variable: discs of T1 and T2 with punctures from indistinct, sparse, and fine (2–5 μm) to distinctly, relatively dense and coarse (5–10

μm); T1–T3 from red to brown, with red marginal zones; gonocoxite dorsally with impression.

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

17.VII 1908, 2 ♀, Uvarov [ZISP]; idem , 8.V 1935, 1 ♀, Fridolin [ZISP]; Kharkin,

Ural River , 6.V–8.VII 1951, 13 ♀, 3 ♂, VT, Romadina [ZISP]; Yanvarztevo, Ural

River, 16.V–2.IX.1949, 26 ♀, 6 ♂, VR [ZISP]; Aktobe : 10 km W Khromotau ,

28.VIII 1987, 1 ♂, YP [ZISP]; Akmola: Akmolinsk, 21.VI 1932, 1 ♀, VP [ZISP];

Kokshetau Mts , Tersakkan River, 7–21.VI 1957, 1 ♀, 2 ♂, VT [ZISP]; Tengiz

Lake, 3.VII 1957, 1 ♂, VT [ZISP]; Karagandy: Koksengir, S Zhana-Ark [Atasu],

3–23.VII, 6.VIII 1959, 1 ♀, 34 ♂, VR, AP, Kurchinskaya [ZISP]; Taldy-Manak

River, S Zhana-Ark [Atasu], 6-15.VII 1959, 54 ♂, AP [ZISP]; East Kazakhstan:

Semipalatinsk [Semey], 1 ♀, F. Morawitz’s coll. [ZISP]; 18 km SE Zaysan, TemirSu , 15.VI 1973, 1 ♀, MK [ZISP]; 12 km SE Georgievka , 17.VII 1979, 1 ♀, VK

[ZISP]; Targabatay Mts, 10 km ENE Kirovka, 12.VII 1983, 2 ♀, M. Volkovich

[ZISP]; Ayaguz River, 40–45 km SE Targabatay, 1600 m, 2.VIII 1986, 1 ♀, YP

[ZISP]; Cherdoyak River, 45 km NE Kurchum, 1000 m, Naryn Mts, 11.VIII 1986,

1 ♀, YP [ZISP]; 20 km ENE Charsk , 600 m, 17.VII 1987 , 2 ♀, 6 ♂, YP [ZISP];

Almaty: near Almaty, 6.VI.1953, 2 ♀, G.A. Viktorov [ZMMU]; Dzhungar Alatau

Mts, Topolevka, E Sarkand, 8-22.V 1957, 8 ♀, I. Kerzhner [ZISP]; Issik, 22.VI

1992, 1 ♀, JH [PCMS]; 3 km S Issik , 22-23.VI 1992 , 1 ♀, KD [PCMS]; 6 km SW

Almaty, 7.VI 2003, 1 ♀, VK [ZISP] .

DISTRIBUTION. * Kazakhstan (West Kazakhstan, Aktobe, Akmola, Karagandy,

East Kazakhstan, Almaty), Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Europe (north to 62°

latitude), Caucasus.

REMARK. In the southern part of Kazakhstan this species occurs only in moun-

tainous areas.

Figures

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