Dasypoda morawitzi Radchenko, sp. n.
Creators: name: Radchenko, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Melittidae
Dasypoda
Dasypoda morawitzi

description: Dasypoda morawitzi Radchenko, sp. n.
Type material: Holotype ♂, “Херсонська обл., ЧБЗ, Івано-Рибальчан. дільн. [46.45347, 32.10651], 0 7.08.2015, Котенко А.” [Ukraine, Kherson Region, Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Ivano-Rybalchanskiy plot, leg. A. Kotenko] (IEEK).
Paratypes—293 ♂ 153 ♀:
Ukraine: “settlement Donetskoe [48.934722, 37.690556], Slavyansk district, Donetsk Region, 26.07.1973, leg. V. G. Radchenko ”, 1♂ (IEEK); “ Donetsk Botanical Garden [48.01, 37.880556], 8.08.1978 on flowers of Cichorium intybus, leg. V. G. Radchenko ”, 4♂ 1♀ (IEEK); “ Donetsk Region, Enakievo, settlement Olkhovatka [48.23771, 38.42073], 10.08.1978, on Picris sp., leg. V. G. Radchenko ”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Stalinskaya obl. [Donetsk Region], step Khomutovsky [Ukrainian Steppe Natural Reserve] [47.287, 38.185], 4.vii. [19]48”, 1♂ (SIZK); “ Kherson [Region], Aleshkinskie Peski [Oleshky Sands] [46.583333, 33.05], 26.07.1926, L. Zimin ” 1♂ (ZISP); “ Kherson region, environs of Tsiurupynsk [46.633333, 32.583333]: 0 2.09.2013, leg. A. Yu. Pantova ”, 1♀ (IEEK); 10.09.2014, leg. M. I. Zayika, 1♂ (IEEK); “ Kherson Region, Tsiurupynsk district, [village] Solontsy [46.57732, 32.67538], 28.vi. [19]50 [leg. A. Z. Osychnjuk]”, 1♂ (SIZK); “ Kherson Region, Tsiurupynsk district, environs of village Solontsy [46.57550, 32.64484]”: 0 3.09.2013, leg. M. I. Zayika 1♂ (IEEK); 12.09.2014, leg. M. I. Zayika 1♂ (IEEK); “ Kherson region, Black Sea Biosphere Reserve [46.44827, 32.14668]”: 0 7.08.2015, leg. M. I. Zayika, 2♀ 1♂ (IEEK); 0 5.09.2013, leg. M. I. Zayika, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Kherson region, Black Sea [Biosphere] Reserve, Ivano- Rybalchanskiy plot [46.45347, 32.10651], 10.07.1980, leg. [L.] Bodnarchuk et [I.] Shalimov ”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Kherson region, ChBZ [Black Sea Biosphere Reserve], Ivano-Rybalchanskiy plot [46.45347, 32.10651], 0 7.08.2015, [leg.] A. Kotenko ”, 1♀ 1♂ (IEEK); “ Kherson region, Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Solenoozerniy plot, cordon behalf of Parkhomenko [46.45607, 31.97571], 09– 13.08.2014, leg. O. Kumpanenko ”, 1♀ 2♂ (IEEK); “ Kharkiv Region, [settlement] Rohan [49.939722, 36.49], 14.07.1981 on flower of Campanula sp., leg. M. Filatov ”, 1♂ (IEEK); “environs of Kiev [50.35992, 30.45324], 18.iv. [19]54, on flowers of Tussilago farfara ”, 1♀ (SIZK); “ Kiev distr., [village] Hodosovka [50.275, 30.515], 26.07.[20]04, [leg.] M. Nesterov ”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Kiev Region, Makarov [Kiev-Sviatoshyn] district, village Muzychi [50.35116, 30.11284], 0 1.07. [20]14, leg. M. O. Nesterov ”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Kiev Region, village Muzychi, 21.07.2012, leg. M. O. Nesterov ”, 2♀ (IEEK); “ Kiev, island Murometz [50.50577, 30.54296], 8.07.2014, leg. A. Yu. Pantova ”, 2♂ (IEEK); “ Kiev, reserve “Bobrovnya” [50.51377, 30.53706], 0 1. 0 8. [20]12, on Aster [aceae]”, 6♀ (IEEK); “[Kiev], Park “Druzhby Narodov” [50.49588, 30.54166], 01.08.[20]12, on Aster [aceae]”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Zaporoz [hye] Region, Tokmak area, [village] Kohanoe [47.294843, 35.509602], 0 1.08.2001, 0 4.08.2001, leg. Zhakov ”, 2♀ (IEEK); “S[outhern] coast of Crimea from Karatau to Yayla [44.841, 34.522], leg. Vydhalm ” 1♂ (ZISP); “ Crimea, Simferopol district, [village] Urozhaynoye [45.058333, 34.123611]: 0 2.08.2012, leg. V. Zhidkov, 1♀ 1♂ (IEEK); 0 2.08.2012, on Scabiosa sp. leg. S. Ivanov, 4♂ (TNUS); 9.08.1999, leg. S. P. Ivanov 1♂ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Simferopol district, [village] Krasnolesye [44.834722, 34.229167], 16.05.1973 ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Simferopol, Khoshkeldy [45.00250, 34.17795], 27.07.2004, leg. V. Zhidkov ”, 1♂ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Belogorsk district, [village] Krımskaya Roza [45.054167, 34.359722], 6.viii. [19]69 on Crepis tectorum, [leg.] Turkhanova ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Belogorsk district, [village] Zuya [45.054167, 34.315278], [leg.] Turkhanova ”: 7.viii. [19]69, on Xeranthemum annuum, 2♀ 6♂ (TNUS); 7.viii. [19]69 on Chondrilla juncea, 2♀4♂ (TNUS); 8.viii. [19]69, on Cichorium sp., 1♀ (TNUS); 15.viii. [19]69, on Cichorium sp., 2♂ (TNUS); 15.viii. [19]69 on Knautia sp., 2♂ (TNUS); “ Crimea, [village] Zolotoe [45.422222, 36.076389], 0 3.06.1999, leg. S. P. Ivanov ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, [village] Kurortnoe [45.472222, 36.3375], 0 1.08.2004, leg. S. Ivanov ”, 2♂ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Chernomorsk district, [village] Gromovo [45.388889, 32.869444], 24.05.1988, leg. S. Ivanov ”, 1♂ (TNUS); “[Crimea], Yevpatoria [45.193889, 33.368056], 27.viii. [19]29”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Krasnogvardeysky district [near] river Salgir [45.35987, 34.31219], 24.07.1985, leg. S. Ivanov ”, 3♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Sevastopol, Kamyshovaya bay [44.57332, 33.43434], 27.08.1974, leg. S. P. Ivanov ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, cape Kazantip [45.466667, 35.866667], 7.8.1977, [leg.] M. Filatov ”, 1♀ (IEEK); “ Crimea, cape Kazantip, steppe, 0 2.08.2003, leg. S. Ivanov ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Crimea, Tarkhankut [peninsula], the bay Kipchak, [45.48029, 32.59258], 14.06.2012, leg. V. Zhidkov ”, 1♂ (IEEK); “ Crimea, Tarkhankut peninsula, Kipchak valley [45.47217, 32.59929], dry saline, 22.06.2007, leg. Fateryga ”, 1♀ (TNUS); “ Chernigov Region, Menskyi district, village Maksaky [51.424722, 32.186111], 29.vii.1978, meadow, on flowers of Inula brit [annica], leg. [L.] Romasenko ”, 1♂ (SIZK); Ibid. “ 31.vii.1978, leg. [L.] Romasenko”, 1♀ (SIZK); “ Chatki, d. Zenkov [village Zinkiv] [50.2, 34.35], g. Poltava, 14.viii. [19]25, [leg.] Kistyakovskyi ”, 2♀ (SIZK); “[village] Yaresky [49.84617, 33.91617], Myrh [orod] d[istrict], Poltava p[rovince], 24.vii.1925, [leg.] Fabri ”, 1♀ (ZISP); “ Gadyach [50.366667, 34.0] [Poltava Province], 14.08.1909 ”, 1♀ (ZISP); “[Sumy Region, Lebedynskyi district], Mikhaylovskaya celina Nature Reserve [50.833333, 34.083333], 24.vii. [19]49, [leg.] G. Kolmaz ”, 1♀ (SIZK); “[Cherkassy Region], Kaniv biozapov. [Nature Reserve] [49.744444, 31.455833], 24.vi. [19]50 on Stachus [Stachys], [leg.] G. Kolmaz ”, 1♀ (SIZK); “ Kaniv biozapov., a glade, 23.viii. [19]49, [leg.] G. Kolmaz ”, 1♀ (SIZK); “ Kaniv biozapov., Mar'ina g., 17.viii. [19]49 [leg.] G. Kolmaz ”, 1♂ (SIZK); “[Cherkassy Region], Khutir Khmil’na [49.68251, 31.53703], Kaniv district, 9.viii. [19]48, [leg. A. F.] Krishtal ”, 1♂ (SIZK); “ Elisavetgrad [Kirovohrad] [48.509, 32.255], 5.vii. 1902, [leg.] E. Yatsentkovsky, 1♂ (ZISP); “ Kirovograd Region, [Oleksandriia district], village Bandurovka [48.734444, 32.954444], [leg. A. Z. Osychnjuk]”: 3.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Cichorium, 2♀ (SIZK); 13.vii. [19]53 on flowers of Cichorium int [ybus], 1♀ (SIZK); 16.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Echium, 2♀ (SIZK); 18.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Scabiosa, 1♀ (SIZK); 19.vii. [19]53 on flowers of Picris hierac [ioides], 4♀ (SIZK); 24.vii. [19]53 on flowers of Cichorium, Picris hierac [ioides], 4♀ (SIZK); 4.viii. [19]53, on flowers of Scabiosa ochr [oleuca], 1♂ (SIZK); 25.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Carduus, 1♂ (SIZK); 31.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Balota ru [?], 1♂ (SIZK); 10.viii. [19]53, on flowers of Eryngium, 1♂ (SIZK); 11.viii. [19]53, on flowers of Inula br [itannica], 1♀ (SIZK); 12.viii. [19]53, on flowers of Carduus, 3♂ (SIZK); Vinnytsia Region, village Mikhaylivka [48.8075, 28.290556] [leg. A. Z. Osychnjuk]: 15.vi. [19]53, 1♂ (SIZK); 18.vii. [19]53, on flowers of Carduus, 4♂ (SIZK); 2.viii. [19]54, on flowers of Carduus, 1♂ (SIZK); 15.viii. [19]54, on flowers of Carduus, 1♂ (SIZK); “ Ismail region [Odessa Region], Kislitskiy island [45.3916996, 29.0960884], 25.vii. [19]51, on Cirsium, [leg. A. Z. Osychnjuk]”, 1♂ (SIZK); “ Ismail region, Borodinskyi district [Odessa Region, Tarutyne district], village Lesnoe [46.4675, 29.350278], 12.viii. [19]51, [leg. A. Z. Osychnjuk]”, 1♂ (SIZK);
Russian Federation: “ Derbent ” [42.0585, 48.276] [Dagestan], “coll. F. Morawitz ” [with the label “ Dasypoda plumipes Pz. ” that handwriting by F. Morawitz], 1♀ (ZISP); “Caucasus [leg.] Bekker”, “coll. F. Morawitz ”, 1♀ 1♂ (ZISP); “[village] Starogladkovskaya [43.633, 46.418], Kizl[yar] Okr. Tersk. [Shelkovskoy District, Chechen Republic], 9.vii. 1927, [leg.] Kiritshenko ”, 1♂ (ZISP); “ Slavyanskaya [45.25, 38.1 167] [Slavyansk-na-Kubani, Krasnodar Krai], N. Cauc [asus], [leg.] Z. Koshur, 19.vii.1937 ”, 1♀ (ZISP); “environs of Orenburg [51.75, 55.13], [river] Ural — meadows: 18.vii.1923, [leg.] Vorontsovskiy”, 1♀ (ZISP); 4.viii.1922, [leg.] Vorontsovskiy ”, 1♀ (ZISP); “ Sarepta ” [Volgograd] [48.512, 44.5499], “coll. F. Morawitz ”, 1♀ 1♂ (ZISP); “ Sarepta 1892 [leg.] Bekker ”, “coll. A. Yakovlev ”, 2♂ (ZISP); “ Sarepta, Saratov prov.”, “coll. L. Wollmann ”, 1♂ (ZISP); “ Saratow ” [51.541, 45.958], “coll. F. Morawitz ”, 1♂ (ZISP); “Urbach [51.237, 46.977], Sarat[ov Region], 24 – 27.07.1926, [leg.] A. Shestakov ” 2♂ (ZISP); “ Orenburg Region [51.76, 55.14], 2.viii.1929, [leg.] P. A. Vorontsovskiy ” 2♂ (ZISP); “ Spask, Jul. ”, [village Spasskoe, Orenburg region] [52.01, 56.53], “coll. Eversmann ”, 3♂ (ZISP); “Luga [58.733333, 29.816667], St-Petersburg, [leg.] Solskiy”, 1♂ (ZISP); “Rostov-on-Don [47. 240556, 39.710556]: 22.07.1963, on Cichorium, [leg. Yu. A.] Pesenko ”, 1♀ (ZISP); 7.08.1963, on Cichorium, [leg. Yu. A.] Pesenko ”, 2♀ (ZISP); “[Bashkortostan, Kuyurgazinsky District] [village] Murap [tal] [52.445944, 55.811472], 22.vii. [19]52, [on] Cich [orium] int [ybus]”, “coll. [K. S.] Nikiforuk ”, 2♀ (SIZK); “[village] Murap [tal], 24.vii. [19]52 [on] Cich [orium] int [ybus]”, “coll. [K. S.] Nikiforuk ”, 1♀ (SIZK); “ Yermekeyevsky [District of Bashkortostan] [54.083333, 53.666667], 10.vii. [19]57, [on] Orig [anum] vulg [are]”, “coll. [K. S.] Nikiforuk ”, 1♀ 1♂ (SIZK); Kazakhstan (all specimens are deposited in ZISP): “ Uralsk [51.233333, 51.366667], [northwestern Kazakhstan], 29 – 30.07.1926, [leg.] A. Shestakov”, 51♂; “ Ber Tschogur Mugodjargebirge [48.459722, 58.553333] [village Birshogyr, Shalkar District, Aktobe Region of Kazakhstan], [leg.] L. Bobyr ”, “coll. Wollmann ”, 1♂; “Kharkin [48.74125, 51.81873], the lower reaches of the Ural River, Kazakhstan ”: 4.vii. [1]951, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cirsium arvense ”, 1♂; 4.vii. [1]952, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Senecio jacobaea ” 2♂; 4.vii. [1]952 [leg.] Rudolph, “ Convolvulus arvensis ”, 1♂; 10.vii. [1]951, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Senecio jacobaea ”, 1♂; 10.07.1951, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ” 1♂; 22.vii. [1]951, [leg.] Popov, “ Cirsium arvense ”, 2♂; 3.viii. [1]951, leg. Rudolph, “ Mulgedium sibiricum ”, 1♂; “South [of the village] Rozhkovo, [51.663333, 52.304722], West Kazakhstan, 8.vii. [1]949, on fly, [leg.] Steinberg ”, 1♂; “Yanvartsevo [51.444253, 52.246097], [Zelenov District, West Kazakhstan Region], right b[ank of the] Ural [River], Kazakhst[an]”: 30.vi. [1]950, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♂; 4.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♀; 4.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Lycopus europaeus ”, 2♂; 4.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♂; 8.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph], “ Cichorium intybus ”, 11♂; 20.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 3♀ 7♂; 20.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 6♀; 21.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Inula britannica ”, 1♂; 21.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Acroptilon picris ”, 4♂; 21.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 1♀5♂; 22.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Echinops ruthenicus ”, 1♂; 22.vii. [1]950, [leg.] Rudolph, 1♂; 23.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Inula britannica ”, 1♀ 3♂; 24.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Eryngium planum ”, 1♀; 24.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Eryngium planum ”, 1♀; 24.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Limonium gmelinii ”, 10♀; 24.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♂; 24.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 17♀ 8♂; 25.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♂; 27.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 1♂; 31.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Limonium gmelinii ”, 1♂; 31.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Limonium gmelinii ”, 1♀ 6♂; 31.vii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 6♀ 35♂; 2.viii.
[1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 1 ♂; 2.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, 1♀; 3.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Limonium gmelinii ”, 6♀ 47♂; 3.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, 2♂; 3.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Eryngium planum ”, 2♀; 3.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Sonchus arvensis ”, 1♀; 3.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Vyrzhikovskaya, 1♀; 4.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Popov, “ Inula britannica ”, 1♀; 4.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 6 ♂; 4.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 6♀; 5.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Limonium gmelinii ”, 1 ♂; 5.iii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♀ 1♂; 10.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 2♀; 12.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 9 ♂; 14.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Arnoldi, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♀; 14.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Inula britannica ”, 2♀; 17.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Cichorium intybus ”, 1♀ 2♂; 18.viii. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Aster punctatus ”, 2♂; 4.ix. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Chondrilla juncea ”, 2♀1♂; 4.ix. [1]949, [leg.] Rudolph, “ Scabiosa isetensis ”, 1♀.
Turkey. “TR: Ihlara Vadisi, S Selime (1200 m) [38.3014, 34.2574], 28.07.2016, leg. [M.] Kasparek”, 2♀ (IEEK).
Etymology. Named after Ferdinand Morawitz. His collection contains several specimens of the new species.
Diagnosis. The species is very similar to D. hirtipes, hardly distinguishable from it in general appearance. Specimens of D. morawitzi are slightly smaller (body length: female 9–14 mm [N = 50], fig. 1–4; male 9.5–13.5 mm [N = 50], fig. 9, 10, 13, 14, 17) than D. hirtipes (female 11.5–15.5 mm; male 10–15 mm), but still broadly overlap in size. The main character, which sharply distinguishes these species is the structure of galeal surface in both males and females, rippled by wavelike lines in D. morawitzi (fig. 20, 21) and completely covered with small tubercles in D. hirtipes (fig. 22, 23) as well as in D. oraniensis (fig. 26, 27) and D. albipila (fig. 28). The galeal surface is intermediate in D. sinuata (fig. 24, 25) and partly D. tubera Warncke, 1973 (fig. 29). However, the latter species differs sharply by the structure of the gonostylus, which has three well-developed processes.
In comparison with D. hirtipes, the central apical part of male S 6 in D. morawitzi is more produced anteriorly (fig. 35, 38), the apical projections on S7 are more broadly rounded (fig. 36, 39), S8 is wider, with more projected outgrowths at each side (fig. 37, 40–42), the apical part of S8 is wider and rounded, with two separated teeth on its the ventral side (fig. 43), which are shorter and closer than those of D. hirtipes (fig. 44) and D. sinuata (teeth connected in D. albipila). The inner process of the gonostylus has a shorter fringe of hairs on the margin (fig. 45, 47, 49, 50, 61 – 66), similar to that of D. albipila (fig. 49, 50) and D. sinuata, but distinct from the very long branched hairs in D. hirtipes (fig. 46, 48, 55, 56). The base of the gonostylus in D. morawitzi is untoothed, only with an elongated area that is rounded, crest-shaped, and protruded apically (fig. 51, 61); in D. albipila the base of the gonostylus has protrusion in the form of a small flat visor, which is widely rounded (fig. 54), whereas in D. hirtipes is a triangular tooth forming a curved inward axil, fig. 57, 58). In D. oraniensis this tooth is more rounded apically (fig. 59, 60).
Description. Male: holotype—one of the most recently collected specimens which by the size of the body and the color of hairs (fig. 17–19) occupies an intermediate position between the forms that were at the extremes by these parameters (fig. 9–16). Body length (vertex–T7): 11 mm (paratypes: 9.5–13.5 mm), Mesosoma: W (between tegulae) = 2.5 mm (paratypes: 2.3–2.8 mm). Head: L = 2.5 (paratypes: 2.4–2.6 mm), W = 2.8 mm (paratypes: 2.7– 3.1 mm).
Face mainly covered with long white, grayish-white and small admixture (in some paratypes with large admixture or without it) of dirty yellow hairs adjacent to clypeus obscuring integument (fig. 12, 16, 18). Pubescence sparse on vertex near ocelli, with admixture of dark brown and black hairs (fig. 19). Malar distance very short, as in female (see below). Thorax dorsally mostly with dirty yellowish hairs, ventrally and laterally with light white ones (scutum in some paratypes covered with grayish-white hairs), center of scutum with little admixture of dark hairs. Hind tibia (fig. 32–34) intermediate structure between D. hirtipes and D. sinuata. Apical bands on terga consisting of different hairs, from white to dirty yellow (or almost reddish): on T1 widely interrupted, T2 whole (or interrupted narrowly), T3–T6 with continuous apical bands. T1–T3 at base with long erect white and dirty yellow (or grayish-white) hairs, on T4–T6 with such erecte light hairs located at sides of metasoma, otherwise covered with short dark brown or black hairs (on T4–T5 often with admixture of erect light hairs anterior to apical band), T7 covered with black and dark brown, relatively long, appressed hairs with great admixture of light hairs on the sides of terga. All sterna apically lightened, translucent, with narrow band of short, light white (or gray) hairs, on S5 with admixture of reddish-yellow hairs on sides (fig. 11, 15) (certain paratypes, particularly small-sized, with long and densely pubescent sterna). Inner process of gonostylus with short, thick, almost unbranched hairs (fig. 63), except some hairs with small number of short side branches (Fig. 66).
All different color variants of body pubescence (same as at females) are observed throughout the range of the species. Lighter forms usually characteristic for smaller specimens.
Female (fig. 1 – 8). Body length: 10.5–14 mm. Mesosoma: W (between tegula) = 2.6–3.3 mm. Head: L = 2.8– 3.2; W = 3.3–3.7 (in SIZK was found 2 very small specimens of females, with body length only 8.5 and 9 mm; mesosoma W = 2.0– 2.1 mm; head: L = 2.3–2.4; W = 2.8–3.0 mm; one collected in environs of Kiev, and second in village Zinkiv, Poltava Region of Ukraine).
Face mainly with light-colored (white or gray) hairs, with little (fig. 8) or significant (fig. 7) admixture of dark hairs on frons and vertex. Malar distance very short (0.87× shorter than mandible width at the base; fig. 30), as in other representatives of this group. Mesonotum with light gray, yellowish-gray or yellowish-brown (almost reddish) hairs, at middle with little (fig. 2, 4) or greater admixture of dark brown or black hairs (fig. 1, 3). Metasoma with broad, white, apical hair bands on T2–T4 (on T2 often narrowly interrupted), on basal part covered by erecte and decumbent black hairs, T5 with very dense, appressed, dark gray (or grayish-brown) hairs apically, remaining surface covered with long, dark hairs; prepygidial and pygidial fimbria dark gray or grayish-brown. Pygidial plate narrowly elongated at apex, relatively deeply excised apically (fig. 31). Apical parts of sterna slightly enlightened, S3–S5 with continuous and wide apical bands of dark gray-brown (fig. 5) or lighter yellowbrown (fig. 6) plumose erect hairs. Scopa on hind legs golden-yellow, sometimes lighter: grayish-yellow to grayish-white (fig. 1–4).
Distribution. The new species occurs from Vinnitsa Region of Ukraine to western Kazakhstan, and from St. Petersburg to the south of the Crimean Peninsula, the Caucasus and Turkey (fig. 67). Most likely, D. morawitzi is rather widespread, but study of European collections is needed to clarify occurrence across the Palaearctic realm. In some regions, for example in western Kazakhstan and in the Crimea, specimens of D. morawitzi are more common than those of D. hirtipes.
Floral visitation. Based on the label data, females prefer to collect pollen from plants of the families Asteraceae (mostly Inula britannica, Cichorium intybus and Picris hieracioides) and Plumbaginaceae (Limonium gmelini), although some females were recorded on Apiaceae (Eryngium planum), Boraginaceae (Echium sp.), Caprifoliaceae (Scabiosa isetensis, S. ochroleuca) and Lamiaceae (Lycopus europaeus, Origanum vulgare, Stachys sp.). In addition, single males were collected on plants of Campanulaceae (Campanula sp.) and Convolvulaceae (Convolvulus arvensis). Dasyposa morawitzi has supposedly a wider range of trophic links than D. hirtipes, but these data also need to be clarified because these two species have long been confused.
Flight period. End of May (in the Crimea from mid-May) — mid- September. There is one unusually smallsized female specimen (9 mm long) in the collection of SIZK that was collected in Kiev (Ukraine) on 18.04.1954. Such early flight of this species is probably an artifact.
Comments. The discovery of this new species requires a revision of all published information concerning D. hirtipes, as some publications may actually refer to D. morawitzi, particularly from Eastern Europe. The cryptic species described here also shows a clear need to carefully examine wide ranging, highly variable “species” using a new set of morphological features as well as molecular data. For instance, the study of mitochondrial DNA sequence and details of the male genitalia in the several “forms” assigned to Seladonia smaragdula (Vachal, 1895) showed the existence of six species (Pauly et al. 2015).
description: Published as part of Radchenko, Vladimir G., 2016, A new widespread European bee species of the genus Dasypoda Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), pp. 491-504 in Zootaxa 4184 (3) on pages 493-503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/165030