Melitturga caucasica Morawitz, 1877

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, Zootaxa 5541 (3), pp. 251-293 : 263

12. Melitturga caucasica Morawitz, 1877

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Meliturga [sic!] caucasica Morawitz, 1877: 36 , ♀.

Type locality: Kasbeck Mt. ( Georgia).

Published (original) locality: “Kasbek”.

Lectotype: ♀, designated by Proshchalykin et al. 2016: 568, Kasbek [ Georgia, Kazbek Mt., 44°32′N 42°40′E] // caucasica . Mor. Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syntypes // Lectotype Melitturga caucasica Morawitz, 1877 , design. Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2016 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002756 .

Paralectotypes: 4 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype.

Current status. Melitturga (Melitturga) praestans Giraud, 1861 (synonymised by Warncke 1972: 103).

Distribution. Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece (north), Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Russia (Bashkortostan Republic, Orenburg Province), Iran, Kazakhstan ( Proshchalykin et al. 2016; personal communication of T.J. Wood).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Melitturga caucasica Morawitz, 1877. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view and labels; b—head, frontal view; c—head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d—metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.