Sphecodes crassus Thomson, 1870

Astafurova, Yulia V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. & Schwarz, Maximilian, 2018, The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) in Iran, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 66, pp. 39-53 : 39

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.66.29269

publication LSID

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scientific name

Sphecodes crassus Thomson, 1870
status

 

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Published records.

Ascher and Pickering 2018 (Mazandaran).

Material examined. Mazandaran: Elbrus, 50 km S Chalus, 2800 m, 26.VII.1977, (1 ♀, 8 ♂), leg. A. Ebmer [PCMS]. West Azerbaijan: Serou, 1650 m, 28.V.2010, (2 ♀), leg. M. Halada [PCMS].

Distribution.

Europe (north to 64°), Russia (east to Far East), North Africa, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran (Mazandaran, *West Azerbaijan), Central Asia, Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia, Shanxi), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).

Variation.

Specimens from Iran differ from specimens from the rest of the range by having an entirely dark metasoma with distinctly punctate T2 in male.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Halictidae

Genus

Sphecodes