Melitturga spinosa Morawitz, 1891

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 : 265

13. Melitturga spinosa Morawitz, 1891

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Meliturga [sic!] spinosa Morawitz, 1891: 137 , ♂.

Type locality: Julfa, Nakhchivan Autonomus Republic ( Azerbaijan) .

Published (original) locality: “Transcaucasia: Dschulfa”.

Holotype: ♂, Caucas , Dockelf. [ Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan Autonomus Republic, Julfa, 38°57′N 45°37′E] // Meliturga spinosa F. Morawitz , ♂ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [collection of F. Morawitz] // Holotypus Melitturga spinosa Morawitz, 1891 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_ HYM_0002567 .

Current status. Melitturga (Petrusianna) spinosa Morawitz, 1891 (according to Patiny 1999a: 248).

Distribution. Azerbaijan, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Israel ( Proshchalykin et al. 2016).

Figures

FIGURE 13. Melitturga spinosa Morawitz, 1891. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view and labels; b—head, frontal view; c—head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d—metasoma, dorsal view; e—S7–S8, ventral view. Scale bar: 1 mm.