Anthophora atricilla Eversmann, 1846

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 : 30

Anthophora atricilla Eversmann, 1846

Anthophora atricilla Eversmann, 1846: 437 , ♀ (lectotype: ♀, designated here, Orb. [Orenburg, Russia] // Megilla atricilla , michi // Coll. Radoszkowski // Anthophora atricilla

Everm., ♀, det. J. Banaszak 1977 // Lectotypus, ♀, Anthophora atricilla Eversmann,

1846, design. Proshchalykin et al., 2019; IZKP).

CURRENT STATUS. Valid species (Brooks 1988).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Crimea, European part; North Africa, Caucasus, Turkey, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, China.

REMARK. The species was described from the females collected in “in campis Orenbur-

gensibus australibus”. There is only one female in IZKP from this locality (Orenburg), which corresponds to the original description of Eversmann. This female is designated here as a lectotype of Anthophora atricilla Eversmann ( Fig. 12 ) .

Figures

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