Halictus (Seladonia) kessleri BRAMSON, 1879

V, Yulia, Y, Maxim & M, Mahir, 2017, Contribution to the knowledge of the Seladonia ROBERTSON and Vestitohalictus BLÜTHGEN (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictus LATREILLE) of European part of Russia, Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 377-386 : 379

Halictus (Seladonia) kessleri BRAMSON, 1879

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (143♀♀, 8033): Kursk Prov.: Borisovka ; Ulyanovsk Prov.: Ulyanovsk; Voronezh Prov.: Ramon’ ; Saratov Prov.: 20 km SW Balakovo ; Belgorod Prov.: Borisovka ; Rostov Prov.: Kovrino ; Persiyanovka , Rostov-na-Donu ; Volgograd Prov.: Sarepta[Volgograd]; Krasnodar Terr. : Varenikovskaya ; Stavropol Terr. : Pertovskoye, Shkotovskoe ; 15 km W Stavropol; Sengileyevskoye ; Crimea Rep.: Krasnolesye, Kerch , Belbek , Karadag , Kholmy , Sevastopol, Alushta, Muchalatka, Artek, Simferopol, Yalta, Mezhvodnoe, Izobilnoye, Urozhaynoe, Sudak, Zolotoe ; Orenburg Prov.: 20 km S Sagarchin.

P u b l i s h e d r e c o r d s: PESENKO 1972: 293 (Rostov Prov.); OSYTSHNJUK et al. 1978: 386 (south of European part) ; EBMER 1988a: 353, map 6 (Crimea Rep., Krasnodar Terr., Rostov Prov., Bashkortostan Rep. ) ; KUZNETSOVA 1990: 42 (Lipetsk Prov.); PROSHCHALYKIN & ASTAFUROVA 2012: 98 (Crimea Rep. ) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n Russia (steppe zone, north to Lipetsk Prov. and east to South Ural). – South Europe (to eastern Austria in the north), Caucasus, Turkey.