Colletes similis Schenck 1853
Creators: name: Yu, Maxim
name: Kuhlmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Colletes
Colletes similis

description: Colletes similis Schenck 1853
(Figs 3 a, 6d, 9e–f, 18c–d)
Colletes similis Schenck 1853 (nom. praeocc., nec Robertson 1904, nec Jørgensen 1912): 172, 3 (type locality: Germany). Colletes picistigma Thomson 1872: 165 –166 (type locality: South Sweden).
Material examined. Ukraine. Lviv Prov.: 1 3, Nizhnee Sinevidnoe (23°06'E 49°06'N), 2.VII.1956, leg. AZO (IZKU); Zakarpattia Prov.: 1 3, Velikaya Bakhta (22°39'E 48°09'N), 18.VI.1958, leg. AZO (IZKU); 2 3, Vinogradov (23°01'E 48°09'N), 4.VI.1959, leg. AZO (IZKU); Cherkasy Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Kanev (31°28'E 49°44'N), 6.IX.1950; 2 Ƥ, 3 3, 7.VII.1953, leg. AZO (IZKU); Kirovohrad Prov.: 2 Ƥ, Bandurovka (32°56'E 48°44'N), 24–31.VII.1953, leg. AZO (IZKU); Mykolaiv Prov.: 2 Ƥ, Voznesenskoe (31°31'E 47°37'N), 15–27.VI.1954, leg. AZO (IZKU); Odessa Prov.: 2 3, Lesnoe (29°21'E 46°28'N), 10.VIII.1951, leg. AZO (IZKU); 1 3, Khadzhibeiskiy liman (30°35'E 46°36'N), 19.VIII.1988, leg. MVF (DNAU); Crimea: 21 Ƥ, Baidarskaya dolina (33°51'E 44°31'N), 18.VI.1964, leg. AZO (IZKU); 1 Ƥ, 7 3, Belogorsk Distr., Zuya (34°18'E 45°03'N), 19–29.VI.1969, leg. Turkalova (VTNU); 1 Ƥ, Belogorskiy Distr., Karasevka (34°36'E 44°59'N), 11.VII.1981, leg. Stulova (VTNU); 1 3, Chernomorskiy Distr., Medvedevo (34°06'E 44°56'N), 9.VI.2011, leg. SPI (VTNU); 11 Ƥ, 5 3, Demerdzhi Mount. (34°41'E 44°56'N), 10.VII.1964, leg. AZO (IZKU); 1 Ƥ, Feodosia Distr., Lis'ya Bay (35°09'E 44°53'N), 15.IX.2002, leg. AVF (VTNU); 2 Ƥ, 1 3, Feodosia Distr., Tikhaya Bay (35°20'E 44°57'N), 1.VII.2008, leg. SPI (VTNU); 1 3, Karadag (35°14'E 44°57'N), 18.VIII.1936, leg. D'yakonov (ZISP); 1 Ƥ, 2 3, 6.IX.2005, leg. SPI (VTNU); 1 3, 31.VII.1998; 2 3, 17.VIII.1998 (DNAU); 1 3, 14.IX.2002, leg. AVF (VTNU); 4 Ƥ, Katsiveli (33°58'E 44°23'N), 20.IX.2006, leg. AVF (VTNU); 1 3, Kerch (36°28'E 45°21'N), 2.VI.2001, leg. YIB (VTNU); 8 3, Kerch Peninsula, Chauda Cape (35°49'E 45°00'N), 9.VI.2005, leg. SPI (VTNU); 6 Ƥ, Krasniy Kamen (34°24'E 44°40'N), 18.VIII.1928 (VTNU); 1 Ƥ, Krasnoselovka (34°37'E 44°55'N), 17.VII.1958, leg. Derevei, Stepanova (VTNU); 2 3, Kurortnoe (35°11'E 44°54'N), 12.VI.2007, leg. AV F (VTNU); 1 Ƥ, Opukskiy Nature Reserve (36°11'E 45°01'N), 3.X.2003, leg. A. Semik (DNAU); 3 Ƥ, Peredovoe (33°49'E 45°03'N), 12–13.VI.1982, leg. SPI (VTNU); 1 3, Perevalnoe (34°18'E 44°50'N), 25.VII.1975, leg. I. Maltsev (VTNU); 1 3, Saki Distr., Pribreznhaya (33°31'E 45°08'N), 22.V.2007, leg. Puzanov (VTNU); 3 Ƥ, 7 3, Shchebetovka (35°09'E 44°56'N), 25.VIII.2010, leg. SPI (VTNU); 1 Ƥ, Simferopol (34°06'E 44°56'N), 30.VI.1953 (VTNU); 1 Ƥ, 25.VII.1997; 1 Ƥ, 1 3, 13.VI.2008, leg. SPI (VTNU); Kharkiv Prov.: 2 Ƥ, Gotvaldovskiy Distr., Gaidary (36°18'E 49°38'N), 21.VIII.1998, leg. MVF (DNAU); 2 Ƥ, Rogan (36°29'E 49°54'N), 14.VII.1999; 1 3, 17.VI.2011, leg. MVF (DNAU); 1 3, Sakhnovshchinskiy Distr., Orel' River (35°52'E 49°08'N), 22.VI.2000, leg. MVF (DNAU); Luhansk Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Provalskaya step (39°49'E 48°50'N), 19–28.VI.1947, leg. SIM (IZKU); 1 3, 23.VII.2004, leg. Moroz (PCAA); 1 Ƥ, Streletskaya step (40°40'E 49°17'N), 24.VIII.1963, leg. AZO (IZKU); 1 3, Antratsitovskiy Distr., D'yakovo (39°08'E 47°56'N), 18.VII.2001, leg. Konovalov (DNAU); 3 3, 10 km SW Krasnodon, Dubovka (39°44'E 48°17'N), 9.VI.2005, leg. AVA (PCAA); Donetsk Prov.: 1 Ƥ, Khomutovskaya step (38°11'E 47°17'N), 11.IX.1960, leg. AZO (IZKU); 1 Ƥ, 2 3, 31.VIII.1963, leg. Z. Gershenzon (IZKU); 1 Ƥ, Kamennye Mogily Nature Reserve (37°04'E 47°18'N), 17.VI.1986, leg. MVF (DNAU); 1 3, Kamenka (37°41'E 47°25'N), 15.VIII.1997, leg. AVA (PCAA); 1 3, Donetsk (37°48'E 48°00'N), 22.VIII.1997; 1 Ƥ, 16.VIII.2001, leg. AVA (PCAA); 1 Ƥ, Konstantinovka (37°43'E 48°32'N), 3.IX.2006, leg. AVA (PCAA); Starobeshevo (38°02'E 47°45'N), 24.VII.2005, leg. AVA (PCAA).
Published records. Noskiewicz (1922b): Ternopil Prov.; Lebedev (1933: 19): Kiev Prov.; Osytshnjuk (1970: 86): Lviv Prov., Zakarpattia Prov., Cherkasy Prov., Kirovohrad Prov., Mykolaiv Prov., Odessa Prov., Crimea, Luhansk Prov., Donetsk Prov.; Osytshnjuk et al. (1978: 298): Ukraine; Amolin & Yaroshenko (2001: 3): Donetsk Prov.; Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin (2011: 13): Ukraine.
Distribution in Ukraine (Fig. 3 a). Ternopil Prov., Kiev Prov., Lviv Prov., Zakarpattia Prov., Cherkasy Prov., Kirovohrad Prov., Mykolaiv Prov., Odessa Prov., Crimea, *Kharkiv Prov., Luhansk Prov., Donetsk Prov.
General distribution. Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, China [Xinjiang].
description: Published as part of Yu, Maxim & Kuhlmann, Michael, 2012, The bees of the genus Colletes Latreille 1802 of the Ukraine, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3488 on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246435