Sphecodes geoffrellus (Kirby 1802) Kirby 1802
- Dataset
- The bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 of the Russian Far East, with key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Halictidae
- genus
- Sphecodes
- species
- Sphecodes geoffrellus
discussion
Remarks. We studied numerous materials of S. geofrellus from Europe, Central Asia, Urals and Siberia. Male and female specimens examined from Japan identified as S. silvicola by K. Mitai proved to be S. geofrellus. Description, figures (Tsuneki 1983) and redescription (Mitai & Tadauchi 2013) of S. silvicola also unequivocally indicate identity with S. geofrellus. For this reason we propose S. silvicola as a new junior synonym of S. geofrellus.
distribution
Distribution. Russia: * Primorskiy Terr., * Jewish AP, * Amurskaya Prov., * Khabarovsk Terr., * Sakhalin, * Kuril Islands (Kunashir, Iturup), Kamchatskiy Terr. (Blüthgen 1935), * Magadan Prov., * Chukotskiy AA, Western Siberia, European part (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978); Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu (Mitai & Tadauchi 2013, as Sphecodes silvicola), North Africa, Europe (north to 66 °), Turkey, Near East.
materials_examined
Material examined. Russia. Primorskiy Terr.: 1 ♀, Molchanovka, 1. VII. 1972, V. Kuslitskiy; 1 ♀, Ussuriyskiy Nature Reserve, 7. IX. 1974, AL; 1 ♂, 14. IX. 1979, AK; 1 ♂, 40 - 70 km N Khasan, 10. VIII. 1978, DK; 1 ♀, Vladivostok, 14. V. 1978, AL; 1 ♀, Lazovskiy Nature Reserve, 5 km SE Kievka, 15. VI. 1981, SB; 1 ♂, 30 km NW Spassk, 25. VIII. 1981, SB; 1 ♂, Nakhodka, 20. VIII. 1985, SB; 1 ♂, Evseevka, 28. VI. 1985, SB; 1 ♀, Barabash- Levada, 7. VII. 1986, AL; 3 ♀, Ryazanovka, 15 km S Slavyanka, 2. IX. 1987; 1 ♀, 7. VI. 1990; 1 ♂, 19. VII. 1991; 1 ♀, 16. VI. 1993; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 31. VIII. 1995, SB; 1 ♀, Lyalichi, Ilistaya River, 2. VI. 1990, SB; 1 ♂, 20 km SE Ussuriysk, 31. VII. 1991, SB; 1 ♂, Spassk, 3 - 6. VII. 1993; 3 ♂, 11 - 16. VIII. 1995, SB; 1 ♂, 20 km SW Krounovka, 2 - 5. VIII. 1993, SB; 1 ♀, Vladivostok, Akademgorodok, 20. V. 1994, AL; 1 ♂, Khasan, 12 - 14. VIII. 1998, SB; 2 ♀, 25 km SW Slavyanka, Sukhanovka, 18 - 20. VIII. 1998, SB; 1 ♂, 10 km SE Chernigovka, 26 - 28. VIII. 1998, SB; 2 ♀, Novokachalinsk, Khanka Lake, 12 - 16. VIII. 2003, SB; 1 ♀, 21 - 22. VII. 2010, MP; 2 ♀, 70 km SE Chuguevka, 13. VII. 2001, VL; Jewish AP: 2 ♂, 40 km NNW Amurzet, 27. VII. 1981, DK; 1 ♀, 12 km W Birobidzhan, 16. VI. 1983, DK; 1 ♀, Malyi Khingan Mt., Radde, 12 - 15. VII. 2003, SB; Amurskaya Prov.: 1 ♀, Cheremkhovo, 15. VI. 1940, V. Nekruchev; 1 ♀, Between Malaya Pera River and Bolshoy Ergel, 26 - 29. V. 1958, G. Zinovjev; 1 ♂, Simonovo, 75 km W Svobodnyi, 9 - 12. VII. 1959, G. Zinovjev; 1 ♀, Semenovka, 4. VII. 1975, AL; 1 ♂, Dim, 16. VII. 1975, NK; 1 ♂, 40 km SW Svobodnyi, 27 - 29. VII. 2003, SB; 1 ♀, 10 km W Ekimchan, 22 - 23. VI. 2004, MP; Khabarovsk Terr.: 1 ♂, Duki, 24. VIII. 1976, Yu. Bodrova; 1 ♂, Khekhtsir, Dva Brata Mt., 26. VII. 1978, DK; 1 ♀, 10 km E Arka, 25. VIII. 1982, AK; 1 ♀, Komsomolsk on Amur, 20. V. 1986; 1 ♀, 17. V. 1988, VM; 1 ♀, Pivan’, 13. V. 2001, MP; 2 ♀, Evoron Lake, 15 - 17. VII. 2006, MP; Sakhalin: 1 ♀, Konuma [= Novoaleksandrovsk], 12. VII. 1931, M. Hori; 1 ♀, Ozerskii, 19. VII. 1978, AL; 1 ♀, Tymovsk, 29. VI. 1981, YP; 1 ♀, 15 km NE Yuzhno- Sakhalinsk, 9. VII. 1981, YP; 1 ♀, Dolinsk, 21 - 23. V. 1985, S. Kholin, A. Plutenko; 1 ♀, Lyugi, 12. VIII. 2001, AL; Kuril Islands: Kunashir, 2 ♀, 6 km WSW Yuzhno-Kurilsk, 11. VI. 1984, V. Makarkin; 6 ♀, Dubovoe, 20 - 22. VII. 2011, MP, VL; 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Ivanovskii Cape, Grozovoe, 16 - 18. VII. 2013, YS, LS; 1 ♀, Severyanka River, 23 - 27. VII. 2013, K. Makarov; 2 ♀, Rudnoe, 27 - 28. VII. 2013, YS; 3 ♀, 3 ♂, Dokuchaeva Cape, 30. VII – 6. VIII. 2013, YS, LS; Iturup, 1 ♀, Dobroye, Nachalo Bay, 22. VIII. 1996, AL; Kamchatskiy Terr.: 1 ♀, Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskiy, 6. VII. 1981, A. Egorov; 1 ♀, Kozyrevsk, 13. VII. 1985, SB; 1 ♀, 10 km E Esso, 24. VII. 2005, MP; Magadan Prov.: 4 ♀, 5 ♂, 12 km N Seimchan, 27. VII. 1975, V. Marshakov; 1 ♀, 50 km N Seimchan, Lazo, 7. VIII. 1975, V. Marshakov; Chukotskiy AA: 2 ♀, 180 km lower Omolon, Omolon River, 30. VI. 1976, V. Marshakov. Japan. Hokkaido, 1 ♂, Otarunai, 22. IX. 1973, H. Fukuda (K. Mitai det. 2011, as S. silvicola); 1 ♀, Tsukisappu, 21. IX. 1965 (K. Mitai det. 2011, as S. silvicola).