Sphecodes walteri Nobile & Turrisi, 2004

Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), Zootaxa 5327 (1), pp. 1-147 : 52-53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5327.1.1
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scientific name	Sphecodes walteri Nobile & Turrisi, 2004
status

Treatment

Sphecodes walteri Nobile & Turrisi, 2004 View in CoL

Synonymised with Sphecodes combai Nobile & Turrisi, 2004 , which is the senior synonym according to Astafurova & Proshchalykin (2021).

Taxonomic changes

The following new combinations are proposed for species previously included in the genus Vestitohalictus Bl ̧thgen, 1961 ( Rasmont et al. 2017) and now transferred to the genus Seladonia Robertson, 1918 subgenus Vestitohalictus :

Seladonia (Vestitohalictus) concinna (Brullé, 1840) ; S. (V.) inpilosa (Ebmer, 1975) ; S. (V.) microcardia ( Pérez, 1895) ; S. (V.) vestita ( Lepeletier, 1841) .

The following new combinations are proposed for species previously included in the genus Vestitohalictus and now transferred to the genus Seladonia subgenus Mucoreohalictus Pesenko, 2004 :

Seladonia (Mucoreohalictus) cyprica (Bļthgen, 1937); S. (M.) mucorea ( Eversmann, 1852) ; S. (M.) pollinosa (Sichel, 1860) View in CoL ; S. (M.) pseudomucorea (Ebmer, 1975) ; S. (M.) tuberculata (Bļthgen, 1925).

Remark. There is no consensus on the generic treatment of Seladonia . Further molecular works are critically needed to clarify the correct placement of this taxon within Halictidae (see comment above).