Sphecodes pellucidus Smith 1845
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes pellucidus

description: Sphecodes pellucidus Smith, 1845
(Figs 14, 82, 103, 110, 116)
Sphecodes pellucidus Smith, 1845: 1014, ♀, ♂ (type locality: England); Meyer 1920: 138; 1922: 167; 1925: 7; Warncke 1992: 43 (map); Proshchalykin 2012: 457.
Sphecodes pilifrons Thomson, 1870: 99, ♀ (type locality: Sweden).
Sphecodes brevicornis Hagens, 1874: 39, ♂ (type locality: Germany).
Sphecodes volatilis Smith, 1879: 26, ♂ (holotype: ♂, “Trans-Baikal”, Siberia, NHML). Synonymized by Blüthgen 1924b: 516.
Sphecodes pellucidus var. algirus Alfken, 1914: 195, ♀ (type locality: Algeria).
Sphecodes pellucidus var. hybridus Blüthgen, 1924b: 516, ♀ (type locality: China: Sichuan).
Sphecodes pellucidus var. niveipennis Meyer, 1925: 7, ♂ (type locality: China: Xinjiang).
Material examined. Russia. Tyumen Prov.: 3 ♀, Tyumen’, 14.V.1925, Fridolin; Omsk Prov.: 2 ♀, Omsk, 3– 15.VII.1926, Bey-Bienko; Tomsk Prov.: 5 ♀, Tomsk, 1–26.V.1997, 3 ♀, 7.V.1999, 2 ♀, 16.V.2000, OK; Novosibirsk Prov.: 2 ♀, mouth of Kargat River, 11.V.1992, AB; 1 ♀, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, 16.V.2010, E.Borisova; Kemerovo Prov.: 3 ♀, Kemerovo, on Chorispora sibirica, 25. IV.2007, SY; 3 ♀, 8.V.2007, DS; 5 ♀, 14 km NW Kemerovo, Mozzhukha, 14.V.2008, DS; 1 ♀, Krapivinskiy distr., 9 km W Taradanovo, on Taraxacum officinale, 1.VI.2008, DS; 2 ♀, Promyshlenovskiy distr., Zhuravlevo, 30.V.2009, DS; 1 ♀, Gur’evsk distr., Shanda, 27.VI.2013, DS; Altaisky Terr.: 1 ♀, Barnaul, near Yuzhhy, 31.V.2001, YD; 1 ♀, Barnaul, near Kirov, 11.V.2006, YD; 1 ♀, Tigirek, 1–25.VII.2012, R.Bagirov; Altai Rebublic: 1 ♀, Onguday, 11.VI.1897, A.Yakobson; 1 ♂, Chikat-Alman Mts., 16.VII.1964, MK; 1 ♀, Artybash, 27.VIII.1983, AB; 3 ♂, 36 km SE Onguday, Terektin Ridge, Bolshoy Yaloman River, 31.VII.1987, YP; 1 ♂, 20 km WNW Aktash, Chuya River, 1130 m, 10.VIII.1987, YP; 1 ♂, 55 km W Ust’-Koksa, Bannaya River, 16.VIII.1987, YP; 2 ♂, 7 km SE Kosh-Agach, 29.VII.2014, M. Shcherbakov; Khakassia Republic: 1 ♀, Chernoe Ozero, Chernoe Lake, 13.VI.2005, EA; 3 ♀, 1 ♂, 16– 19.VII.2012, AL, MP, VL; 2 ♀, near Zhemchuzhny, Shira Lake, 14–15.VII.2012; 1 ♀, 1.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♂, Bely Yar, Abakan River, 11–12.VII.2012, MP, VL; 1 ♀, 22 km NW Shira, Bely Iuys, 2.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; Tyva Republic: 2 ♀, Turan, 2.VI.1975, DK; 1 ♀, Erzin, 24.V.1975, DK; 1 ♀, 40 km W Erzin, Shara-Nur Lake, 26.VII.2009, SB; 1 ♂, Balgazyn, 29.VII.2009, SB; 1 ♀, 6 ♂, 20 km SW Erzin, Tore-Khol’ Lake, 27–28.VII.2009, SB; 1 ♂, 30 km Shagonar, Baryk River, 5.VIII.2009, SB; 1 ♀, 25 km SE Erzin, 12–13.VI.2010, YD; 2 ♀, 12 km E Kaa-Khem, 16–17.VI.2010, YD, A.Ernst; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 30 km E Erzin, Yamlyg, 4.VII.2013, MP, VL; 3 ♀, 1 ♂, 13 km SW Samagaltay, Dyttyg-Khem River, 8–11.VII.2013, MP, VL; 2 ♀, 17–19.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 2 ♂, 7 km SE Erzin, Tes-Khem River, 13.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 25 km NE Erzin, Dus-Kholy Lake, 13.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♀, 2 ♂, 25 km SE Erzin, Tes-Khem River, 13–15.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♀, 31 km NEE Erzin, Erzin River, 16.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♂, 7 km SE Erzin, Tes-Khem River, 13.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; 2 ♂, 32 km SW Kyzyl, Elegest River, 22.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; Krasnoyarsk Terr.: 1 ♀, Minusinsk, 24.V.1925, Serebrennikov; 1 ♀, Krasnoyarsk, 28.V.2011, 1 ♀, 15.IX. 2012, EA; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, near Minusinsk, Malaya Minusa River, 7.VII.2012, MP, VL; 1 ♂, near Minusinsk, Nichka River, 6.VII.2012, MP, VL; 1 ♀, Malo-Minusa, 7.V.2013, EA; 1 ♀, Solontzy, 16.VII.2014, EA; Irkutsk Prov.: 3 ♀, Padun [near Bratsk] no date, Chekanovskiy; 2 ♀, Irkutsk, 1898, V.Yakovlev; 2 ♀, 32 km S Irkutsk, Dachnaya, 3.VI.1979, DK; 1 ♂, Angarsk, Ketoy River, 8.VIII.1994, AL; 4 ♀, 1 ♂, Baykal’sk, Baikal Lake, 12.VIII.1994, AL; 1 ♀, Bratsk, 6.VI.1995, P.Klimov; Buryatia Republic: 1 ♀, Troitzkoslavsk [Kyakhta], 4.IX.1928, 1 ♂, 13.IX.1925, Mikhno; Peschanoe, Chernoe and Rybnoe Lakes, 2.VII– 3.VIII.1924, Mikhno; 1 ♀, 5 km NNW Chikoy, Dureny, 25.VI.1986; 1 ♂, 29.VII.1986, B.Zakharov; 2 ♀, near Ulan-Ude, 1–7 km NE Novaya Komushka, 30.V.1993, SR; 1 ♀, Kurumkan distr., Mayskiy, 23.VII.1995, SR; 5 ♀, Selenduma, on Amygdalus pedunculata, 22.V.–3.VI.2004, SR; 12 ♀, 19–24.V.2008, MP; 1 ♀, Naushki, 30.VII.2007, AL, MP, VL; 1 ♀, 31V.–1.VI.2008, MP; 7 ♀, near Kyakhta, 29–30.V.2008, MP; 5 ♀, near Ulan-Ude, Komushka, 17.V.2008, MP; 23 ♀, Ust’-Kiran, Chikoy River, 27–28.V.2008, MP; 1 ♀, Kurumkan distr., NR “Jerginskiy”, 4–5.VII.2013, SR; Yakutia: 2 ♀, Markha, near Yakutsk, 1.VI.1900, Olenin; 2 ♀, Solyanka, Lena River, 25.V.1902, Olenin; 1 ♀, Bestyakh, Lena River, 22.V.1903, Olenin; 1 ♂, Berezovka, 190 km S Olekminskiy, 17.VII.1908, Pfintzenmayer; 1 ♀, Kresty, near Olekminskiy, 4.VI.1909, Kharitonovich; 2 ♀, Sergelyakh, near Yakutsk, 13.VII.1912, I.Afanasyev; 1 ♀, Yakutsk, 9.VI.1927, Moskvin; 1 ♀, 24.V.1985, VD; 7 ♀, Khaptagay, Lena River, 30 km SSE Yakutsk, 30.VI.1974, YP; 1 ♂, 18.VII.1998, ND; near Yakutsk, 7 ♀, 14.VI.1999, A.Popov; Zabaikalskiy Terr.: 2 ♀, near Chita, 25.VII.1947, Zhelkhovtsev; 1 ♀, Bylyra, Kyra River, 19.VI.1975, DK; 1 ♀, 7 km N Priargunsk, 25.VII.1975, DK.
Distribution. Russia: *Tyumen Prov., Omsk Prov., Tomsk Prov. (Warncke 1992), *Novosibirsk Prov., *Altaisky Terr., *Altai Rebublic, *Khakassia Republic, *Tyva Republic, *Krasnoyarsk Terr., Irkutsk Prov. (Meyer 1920, 1922; Blüthgen 1924b), Buryatia Republic (Meyer 1925), *Yakutia, *Zabaikalskiy Terr., Far East, European part (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978); North China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Iran, Europe (north to 66°), Turkey, North Africa.
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2015, Bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 of Siberia, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae), pp. 65-95 in Zootaxa 4052 (1) on pages 77-78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234174