Pseudoanthidium cribratum
Creators: name: Litman, Jessica R.
name: Fateryga, Alexander V.
name: Griswold, Terry L.
name: Aubert, Matthieu
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
name: Divelec, Romain Le
name: Burrows, Skyler
name: Praz, Christophe J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Pseudoanthidium
Pseudoanthidium cribratum

description: PSEUDOANTHIDIUM CRIBRATUM (MORAWITZ, 1875)
(FIGS 2B, 11F, 12F, 13F, 17B, D, F, 23B, 24)
Anthidium cribratum Morawitz, 1875: 130–131, ♀ ♂. Type locality: in Latin ‘Hab. in deserto prope Taschkent et in Kuldscha’ [in the desert near Tashkent and in Kuldscha], in Russian ‘Найдень въ степи между Ташкентомъ и Сыръ- Дарьей 19 мая (700‘-1400‘). Полученъ также изъ Кульджи’ [found in the steppe between Tashkent and the Syr-Darya (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan) on May 19. Received also from Gulja, probably in China]. Lectotype, ♂, designated byWarncke, 1980: 162:‘Ташкентъ [Tashkent]’, ‘к. Ф Моравица [coll. F. Morawitz]’, ‘ Anthidium cribratum F. Moraw. ♂.’, ‘ Lectotypus Anthidium cribratum Mor. (Warncke 1978) ’ (ZISP).
? Anthidium petechiale Morawitz, 1875: 130, ♀. Type locality: in Latin ‘Hab. in valle Sarafschan; semel captum’ [Captured once in the Zeravshan River Valley, Tajikistan], in Russian ‘Найденъ только разъ въ заравшанской долинѣ между Іори и Дашты- Казы 31 мая (3‘800)’ [Found only once in the Zarafschan River Valley between Yori and Dasthikazy, Tajikistan, May 31, 3‘ 800 m].
Material examined: Seven females, 29 males (see Supporting Information, Table S1 for specimen data).
Distribution: Iran, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (Fig. 22B).
Host-plant associations (all records from Popov, 1967): Asteraceae Tajikistan Centaurea iberica Trevir. ex Spreng. (male visit), Chondrilla juncea L. (female visit), Cirsium turkestanicum (Regel) Petr. (female visit), Cynara scolymus L. (female visit), Erigeron canadensis L. (female and male visits), Inula sp. (male visits), Onopordum acanthium L. (male and female visits), Pulicaria salviifolia Bunge (male and female visits), Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo (male and female visits), Tripleurospermum disciforme (C.A. Mey.) Sch. Bip. (male visit); Boraginaceae Uzbekistan Echium italicum subsp. biebersteinii (Lacaita) Greuter & Burdet (male visits); Chenopodiaceae Tajikistan Climacoptera transoxana (Iljin) Botsch. (male visit); Dipsacaceae Tajikistan Dipsacus laciniatus L. (female visit); Fabaceae Tajikistan Alhagi kirghisorum Schrenk (female visits), Trifolium repens L. (male visit); Lamiaceae Tajikistan Mentha longifolia (L.) L. (male and female visits), Vitex angus-castus L. (female visit); Onagraceae Tajikistan Epilobium hirsutum L. (male visits); Plumbaginaceae Tajikistan Limonium perfoliatum (Kar. ex Boiss.) Kuntze (male visit); Ranunculaceae Tajikistan Clematis orientalis L. (female and male visits); Tamaricaceae Tajikistan Tamarix sp. (male visits); Verbenaceae Tajikistan Verbena officinalis L. (male and female visits).
Diagnosis female: The female of P. cribratum may be distinguished from other members of this complex by the following combination of characters: punctation on terga comparatively coarse, as large or larger than punctation on mesonotum, with shiny interspaces between punctures; largest punctures on black part of scutellum equal in diameter to largest punctures on T 2 (Fig. 17B, D, F).
The female of P. cribratum is similar to P. tenellum and P. rozeni; for more information concerning the differentiation of these three species, see the section entitled ‘Diagnosis female’ for P. rozeni. In their zone of overlap (e.g. in Central Asia), differentiating females of P. cribratum from those of P. tenellum may be challenging.
Diagnosis male: The male of P. cribratum may be distinguished from other members of this complex by the following combination of characters: apex of coxa 3 with pronounced, flattened, round-tipped tooth, about as long as third tarsal segment is wide at apex (Fig. 24A–B), which is unique within the species complex; gonostylus over 1.5 times wider at widest point than at base (Fig. 23B); notch at apex of gonostylus wide and deeply U-shaped (Fig. 23B); notch is slightly less deep than width of notch at opening; notch slopes laterally, so that interior tip of the notch is visibly wider than the exterior (Fig. 23B); lateral comb on S5 very small, with longest teeth far shorter than maximum width of hind basitarsus (Fig. 11F); posterior, premarginal brush on S3 with hairs unhooked at tips (Fig. 12F); shiny, hairless zone on S3 between posterior premarginal brush of hairs and anterior zone of dense, velvety pilosity trapezoidal, without medial extension extending anteriorly along the midline of sternum (Fig. 12F); posterior margin of S2 strongly depressed (Fig. 13F); hairs on ventral surface of trochanter 3 dense and of even length but not velvety.
Geographic variation: In Central Asia, individuals have broad punctures that are dense but not contiguous on the vertex, thorax and terga and the integument is shiny. In specimens from the Middle East, including Israel, Jordan, Syria and eastern Turkey, punctures are smaller and mostly contiguous and the integument is less shiny (lightly reticulate), especially on the scutum and scutellum. In addition, males from Central Asia have a more elongate gonostylus with the outer apical projection cylindrical and the lateral comb of S5 nearly truncate and symmetrical apically, while Middle Eastern males have a shorter gonostylus with the outer projection conical and the lateral comb asymmetrical, not truncate. Specimens from Iran are more similar to specimens from the Middle East than to those from Central Asia, although in a single specimen the punctation on the terga is intermediate in size between the forms seen at the extreme ends of this species’ distribution.
description: Published as part of Litman, Jessica R., Fateryga, Alexander V., Griswold, Terry L., Aubert, Matthieu, Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., Divelec, Romain Le, Burrows, Skyler & Praz, Christophe J., 2022, Paraphyly and low levels of genetic divergence in morphologically distinct taxa: revision of the Pseudoanthidium scapulare complex of carder bees (Apoidea: Megachilidae: Anthidiini), pp. 1-51 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 (4) on pages 31-33, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab062, http://zenodo.org/record/5817276