Colletes ravulus Noskiewicz, 1936

Niu, Ze-Qing, Zhu, Chao-Dong & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2014, The Bees of the Genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from China, Zootaxa 3856 (4), pp. 451-483 : 461

Colletes ravulus Noskiewicz, 1936

Colletes ravulus Noskiewicz 1936: 335 –337; Kuhlmann & Dorn 2002: 94; Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2011: 10 –12 [ Figs 5 a–f, 6a–f]; 2013b: 260.

Material examined: China, Xinjiang: 1♀, Bugas b. Hami, süd. V. Tjan-Shan (93°29´E 42°50´N), 6.IX.1895, Kozlov ( ZISP); Shanxi: 2♂♂, Taigu (112º30′E 37º24′N), 14–16.IX.1953; Inner Mongolia: 2♀♀, 2♂♂, Ulanqab Meng, Tomortei (113º06′E 41º48′N), 27.VIII.1971; 2♂♂, Ulanqab Meng, Tomortei (113º06′E 41º48′N), 29.VIII.1971; 5♀♀, Ulanqab Meng, Tomortei (113º06′E 41º48′N), 31.VIII.1971; 1♀, Xiling Gol Meng, Erenhot (112º30′E 43º46′N), 23.VIII.1971; 1♂, Dong Ujimqin Qi (117º00′E 45º30′N), 19.VIII.1971, You-Wei Zhang.

Floral association: no record.

General distribution: Russia, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia).

Remark: The specimen from Xinjiang collected by Kozlov was published as a slightly aberant form of C. tardus Noskiewicz (Noskiewicz 1936) but turned out to be the in those days unknown female of C. ravulus ( Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2011) .

Figures

FIGURE 5. Colletes spinatus Niu, Zhu & Kuhlmann, sp. nov., female. a: Body in lateral view; b: Head in frontal view; c: Scutum in dorsal view; d: Metasoma in dorsal view; e: T 1 – T 2 in dorsal view; f: Dorsolateral angle of pronotum in frontal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.