Pasites fasciata Eversmann, 1852

Proshchalykin, M. Yu., Astafurova, Yu. V., Levchenko, T. V., Shlyakhtenok, A. S. & Schwarz, M., 2019, The species-group names of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes) described from Crimea, North Caucasus, European part of Russia and Ural. Part III. Families Melittidae and Apidae (Except Bombus Latreille and Apis Linnaeus), Far Eastern Entomologist 396, pp. 17-44 : 28

Pasites fasciata Eversmann, 1852

Pasites fasciata Eversmann, 1852: 90 [sex not indicated in publication] (lectotype: ♂,

designated here, Spask [Spasskoe, Orenburg Prov., Russia] Evm. // Lectotypus, ♂ ,

Epeolus fasciatus Eversmann, 1852 , design. Proshchalykin & Astafurova, 2019; IZKP).

CURRENT STATUS. A junior synonym of Biastes brevicornis (Panzer, 1798) (Popov

1933: 54).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: North Caucasus, Crimea, European part, Ural; Europe, Armenia,

Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Kazakhstan.

REMARK. The species was described from the specimens without sex definition collected in “in promontoriis Uralensibus”. There is only one male in IZKP from this locality

(“Spask” [Orenburg Prov., Spasskoe]), which corresponds to the original description of

Eversmann. This male is designated here as a lectotype of Pasites fasciata Eversmann ( Fig. 7 ).

Figures

Figs 1–24. Labels of the lectotypes designated in this paper. 1 – Epeolus luctuosus Evers-