Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870

(FigS 21, 22, 95)

Sphecodes puncticeps Thomson 1870: 99, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Sweden). Sphecodes bituberculatus Pérez 1903: 220, ♀ (type locality: France).

Sphecodes opacifrons Pérez 1903: 219 ♀, ♂ (type locality: Spain).

Sphecodes puncticeps var. cretanus Strand 1921: 305, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Crete).

Material examined. Uzbekistan: 1 ♀, Farab, 31.III.1912, KuleShov (ZISP) ; 2 ♀, 5 ♂, Karshi, Khudoyzot, 20.V.2015, MP (FSCV). Kyrgyzstan: 1 ♂, Fergana MtS., 10 km ESE Lay-Talaa, 1700 m, 16.VIII.1985, YP (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 5 km NE Kanysh-Kyya, 1800 m, 31.VIII.1988, YP (ZISP) . Turkmenistan: 2 ♂, Kizil-Arvat, 1896, Ander (ZISP); 1 ♀, Bagir, Ashkhabad, 2 1–23.IV.1929, AS (ZISP); 1 ♀, Kara-Kala, 12.VI.1952, KryzhanovSkiy (ZISP); 2 ♂, 5 km S Tedzhen, 15.V.1963, AP (ZISP) . Tajikistan: 2 ♀, AShkhabad, Feryuza, 13.V.1928, VG (ZISP); 1 ♂, Gissar Mts., Khan-Takhta, 27.VIII.1933, Veltishchev (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, Gissar, 5.VII.1935, VG (ZISP); 2 ♀, Kondara, Varzob, 1100 m, 5.VI.1937, VG (ZISP); 2 ♀, 2 ♂, Stalinabad [= Dushanbe] (ZISP), 5.V.1944, 6.X. 1943, VP (ZISP); 1 ♀, Dusti, 2–7.III.1944, Arnoldi (ZISP); 1 ♂, Gissar Mts., Khodzha-obi-garm, 12.VIII.1944, М. NikolSkaya (ZISP) ; 1 ♂, Peter I Range, Dashti-Gurk, 40 km ESE Komsomolabad, 1700 m, 31.VIII.1985, YP (ZISP) ; 1 ♀, 10 km N Garavuti, Vakhsh River, 2.V.1987, AL (FSCV).

Published records. Morawitz (1876: 258): UzbekiStan, TajikiStan; Mayer (1920: 150): “TurkeStan”; Popov (1967: 46, aS Sphecodes cristatus): TajikiStan.

General distribution. Central ASia (UzbekiStan, * KyrgyzStan, * TurkmeniStan, TajikiStan); Europe (north to Finland and Sweden), RuSSia (eaSt to Far EaSt), North Africa, Turkey, ISrael, Mongolia.