Hylaeus (Prosopis) variolaris MORAWITZ, 1876

Özbek, Hikmet & Dathe, Holger H., 2020, The bees of the genus Hylaeus FABRICIUS, 1793 of Turkey, with keys to the subgenera and species (Hymenoptera: Anthophila, Colletidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2), pp. 273-346 : 335-336

Hylaeus (Prosopis) variolaris MORAWITZ, 1876

Hylaeus variolaris MORAWITZ, 1876: 286–287 , . Uzbekistan:

Sarafshan. Prosopis variolaris ( MORAWITZ, 1876) – WARNCKE 1981: 154. Hylaeus (Prosopis) variolaris MORAWITZ, 1876 – DATHE &

PROSHCHALYKIN 2017: 43–44; 2018: 76.

Material examined: Erzurum: Atatürk University Campus , 1950 m, 13.07.2004, , leg. H. Özbek (on Melilotus officinalis ) (coll. AMNH) . Kayseri: Pınarbaşı , 1500 m, 25.06.1987, 2 , leg. R. Hensen .

Remarks: Exact collecting data of H. variolaris were recently published by DATHE & PROSHCHALYKIN (2017, 2018) for Central Asia. ASCHER & PICKERING (2019) also report the presence of this species in Turkey and Azerbaijan in “Discover Life”, but without precise location information. The species is easy to recognize, so these notifications are quite plausible. In any case, here we report H. variolaris as new for the Turkish fauna, and Kayseri is the westernmost distribution point of this species as a whole. H. variolaris is only rarely collected in Turkey (2 provinces, Figs 16.10 , 17.X ).

Distribution: Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ( DATHE & PROSHCHALYKIN 2017; 2018). In Turkey: Erzurum, Kayseri. New for Turkey.

Figures

Fig. 16: Distribution map of newly recorded Hylaeus species in Turkey.

Fig. 17: Distribution map of rarely recorded Hylaeus species in Turkey: species collected in only one (1-12) or two (II-X)