Sphecodes olivieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau 1825

(FigS 39, 40, 65, 75, 89)

Sphecodes olivieri Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau in Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau & Audinet-Serville 1825: 448, ♂ (type locality: Arabia).

Sphecodes collaris Spinola 1843: 137, ♀ (type locality: Spain).

Sphecodes hispanicus var. abyssinicus Sichel 1865: 447, ♀ (type locality: Ethiopia).

Sphecodes ruficornis Sichel 1865: 440, ♀ (type locality: Algeria).

Sphecodes punctulatus Sichel 1865: 443, ♂ (type locality: Algeria).

Sphecodes subpunctulatus Sichel 1865: 445, ♂ (type locality: Morocco).

Sphecodes rufithorax Morawitz 1876: 225, ♀ (type locality: Kazakhstan).

Sphecodes verticalis Hagens 1882: 219, ♀ (type locality: France).

Sphecodes desertus Nurse 1903: 540 ♀, ♂ (type locality: India).

Sphecodes chionospilus Cockerell 1911: 217, ♂ (type locality: Pakistan).

Sphecodes chionospilus var. sanguinatus Cockerell 1911: 217, ♂ (type locality: Pakistan).

Sphecodes tenuis Meyer 1920: 121, ♂ (type locality: Transcaspia).

Sphecodes olivieri var. niveatus Meyer 1925: 4, ♂ (type locality: Algeria).

Material examined (108 ♀, 125 ♂). Uzbekistan: Dzhuma; GuliSton; Chimbay; KarShi; 35 km SW KarShi ; Kuropatkino; Khiva; Yargak; Kurgan-Tyube; Staraya Bukhara; TaShkent; 10 km NW Sharabad;

Turkmenistan: AShkhabad; Karakym deSert, 60 km NE AShkhabad; Akhcha-Kuyma; Chardzhou; Bakharden; Farab; Firyuza; Imam-Baba; 20 km SE Mary; Repetek; Kara-Bogaz; Kara-Kala; Khodzha-Kala; KomarovSk; Serax; Tedzhen; Tajikistan: DuShanbe, Kirovobad; Kulyab; Khodzha; Staraya PriStan’; Kurgan-Tyube; 15 km S Shaartuz; 10 km N Garavuti.

Published records. RadoSzkowSki (1886: 20, aS Sphecodes rufithorax): TurkmeniStan; Blüthgen (1924b: 463): TurkmeniStan; Mayer (1925: 3, aS S. tenuis): TajikiStan; Popov (1935: 365): TajikiStan; (1952: 92): TurkmeniStan; (1967: 45): UzbekiStan, TajikiStan.

General distribution. Central ASia (UzbekiStan, TurkmeniStan, TajikiStan); South Europe, RuSSia (South of European part), North Africa, CaucaSuS, Turkey, Iran, PakiStan, ISrael, Arabian PeninSula.

Remark. ThiS SpecieS iS common in deSertS of Central ASia.