Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution III Family Halictidae, genera Halictus Latreille, 1804, and Sphecodes Latreille, 1804, Zootaxa 4790 (3), pp. 401-446 : 441-442

38. Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015

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Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015b: 83 , Figs 21 , 22 , 58, 59, 63, 75, 116, ♂.

Type locality: Tyva Republic ( Russia). Published (original) locality: corresponds to data on the holotype label (see below) .

Holotype: ♂, Тува, 32 км ЮЗ КыЗыла, р.[ека] Элегест [ Russia, Tyva Republic, 32 km SW Kyzyl, Elegest River , 51°29’N 94°10’E], 22.VII.2014, Лелей, ПроЩалыкин, Локтионов [A. Lelej, M. Proshchalykin, V. Lok- tionov leg.] // Holotypus Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015 <red label>// Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000174 .

Paratypes (3 ♂): ♂, МонголиЯ, Восточный аймак, р.[ека] Нумрэгин-Гол, 32 км ЮВ г.[оры] Салхит, [Mon- golia, Dornod Aimag, Numergin-Gol River , 32 km SE Salhit Mts], 8.VIII.1976, М. КоЗлов [M. Kozlov leg.] ; ♂, МонголиЯ, Восточный аймак, р.[ека] Халкин-Гол, 70 км В оЗ.[ера] БаЯн-Нур [ Mongolia, Dornod Aimag, Khalkhyn Gol [= Khalkh River ], 70 km E Bayan-Nur Lake], 1.VIII.1976, М. КоЗлов [M. Kozlov leg.] ; ♂, МонголиЯ, г.[ора] Дерхин-Цаган-Обо, 60 км ВСВ БаЯн-Бурды [ Mongolia, Dornod Aimag, Derhin-Tsagan-Obo Mts. , 60 km ENE Bayan-Burda], 3.VIII.1976, М. КоЗлов MK [M. Kozlov leg.] .

Current status. Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015 .

Remark. Description of female: Astafurova et al. 2015: 5–7, Figs 2 , 4 , 6 . One paratype (male) from Tyva Republic, 31 km NEE Erzin, Erzin River, 16.VII.2014, A. Lelej, M. Proshchalykin, V. Loktionov leg., deposited in the Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (Vladivostok, Russia).

Distribution. Kazakhstan (Karagandy), Russia (Tyva Republic), Mongolia ( Astafurova et al. 2018a).

Figures

FIGURES 2a–f. Halictus bagirensis Blüthgen, 1936. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b—head, frontal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—genitalia, dorsal view; e—labels; f—metasoma, dorsal view.

FIGURES 4a–e. Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—labels; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—head, frontal view; e—metasoma, dorsal view.

FIGURES 6a–e. Halictus compressus transvolgensis Pesenko, 1985. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b—head, frontal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—metasoma, dorsal view; e—labels.

FIGURES 21a–e. Halictus pulvereus Morawitz, 1874. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—head, frontal view; e—labels.

FIGURES 22a–f. Halictus rudolphae Pesenko, 1984. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b— metasoma, dorsal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—head, frontal view; e—labels; f—genitalia.

FIGURES 38a–f. Sphecodes schwarzi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2015. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels; f—genitalia, dorsal view.