Sphecodes gibbus (Linnaeus 1758)

(FigS 14, 15, 58, 74, 92)

Sphex gibba Linnaeus 1758: 571, ♀ (type locality: Sweden).

Apis glabra Füessly 1775: 51, ♀ (type locality: Switzerland).

Andrena ferruginea Olivier 1789: 139, nomen novum for Nomada gibba Fabricius 1775 (nom. praeocc., nec Linnaeus 1758).

Apis gibbosa Christ 1791: 177, nomen novum for Nomada gibba Fabricius 1775 (nom. praeocc., nec Linnaeus 1758).

Melitta sphecoides Kirby 1802: 46, ♀ (type locality: England).

Melitta picea Kirby 1802: 48, ♂ (type locality: England).

Andrena austriaca Fabricius 1804 (nom. praeocc., nec Panzer 1798): 325, ♀ (type locality: Denmark).

Dichroa analis Illiger 1806: 48, nomen novum for Nomada gibba Fabricius 1775 (nom. praeocc., nec Linnaeus 1758).

Sphecodes apicatus Smith 1853: 36, ♀ (type locality: India).

Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz 1876: 257, ♀ (type locality: Kazakhstan).

Sphecodes sutor Nurse 1903: 538, ♀ (type locality: Pakistan).

Sphecodes gibbus var. rufispinosus Meyer 1920: 113, ♀ (type locality: Spain).

Sphecodes gibbus var. turkestanicus Meyer 1920: 113, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Uzbekistan, “ Golodnaja Steppe ”; China: Jarkand, Xinjiang).

Sphecodes castilianus Blüthgen 1924b: 473, ♀ (type locality: Portugal).

Sphecodes lustrans Cockerell 1931b: 411, ♂ (type locality: Morocco).

Sphecodes angarensis Cockerell 1937: 3 –4, ♀ (type locality: Russia, Irkutsk Prov.).

Sphecodes pergibbus Blüthgen 1938: 50, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Cyprus).

Material examined (420 ♀, 370 ♂). Uzbekistan: Bukhara; Dorban; Dzhuma; GuliSton; 50 km E Guzar; 5 km NW Kamzaabad; KarShi; Khiva; Kuropatkino; Samarkand; 10 km W SaryaSSiy . Kyrgyzstan: BelovodSk; 10 km E Sary-Bulak; Uch-Debe , 15 km SSW Sufi-Kurgan; 11 km WSW Daraut-Korgon; 20 km S Frinze [= BiShkek] ; 20 km NW Kokand; 25 km ESE OSh ; Toru-Aygyr, 25 km ENE Rybachye; Sary-Chelak Lake; 20 km E TalaS; 10 km ESE Lay-Talaa; 3 km W Oytala . Turkmenistan: AShkhabad; Akhcha-Kuyma; Akyr-Tyube; Anau; Bakharden; Farab; Firyuza; 30 km S GaSan-Kuli; GuSSeyn-Ali; Imam-Baba; Iol-Dere (gorge) , 15 km NE Kara-Kala; Kara-Kala; KraSnoye Znamya , 50 km S Iolotan’; KeShi; Kora-Bogaz , 40 km N Kyzyl-Arvat; Kyzyldzhar, Badkhyz Nature ReServe; KuShka; 20 km SE Mary ; 12 km SE Tedzhen; 18 km E Tedzhen; Shakhi-Burun; TaShkepri; Takhta-Bazar . Tajikistan: BadakhShan, 25 km E Khorog; GiSSar; DaShti-Gurk , 40 km ESE KomSomolabad, Peter I Range; 15 km SE DuSti; Gandzhino; ISkander-Kul’; Khodzha-Obi-Garm; Kulyab; Stalinabad [= DuShanbe] ; Shuroabad; 15 km WSW Karamyk, Alay MtS.; KammaShi; Tigrovaya Balka Nature ReServe; 10 km N Pyandzh; ToShbulok.

Published records. Morawitz (1876: 256): UzbekiStan, KyrgyzStan; Meyer (1920: 113, aS Sphecodes gibbus var. turkestanicus): UzbekiStan; (1925: 113, aS S. gibbus var. turkestanicus): TurkmeniStan, KyrgyzStan; Popov (1935: 367; 1951: 167): TajikiStan; (1952: 92): TurkmeniStan; (1967: 46): UzbekiStan, TajikiStan.

General distribution. Central ASia (UzbekiStan, KyrgyzStan, TurkmeniStan, TajikiStan); Europe (north to 63°), RuSSia (eaSt to Yakutia), North Africa, Turkey, PakiStan, ISrael, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang), India.