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Sphecodes gibbus

Creators

  • 1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (ZISP), Saint Petersburg, Russia. & Yulia.
  • 2. Federal Scientific Centre for East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCBV), Vladivostok, Russia.

Description

Sphecodes gibbus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 2E, 3I

Sphex gibba Linnaeus, 1758: 571, ♀ (type locality: Sweden). Apis glabra Füessly, 1775: 51, ♀ (type locality: Switzerland). Andrena ferruginea Olivier, 1789: 139, nom. nov. for Nomada gibba Fabricius, 1775 (nom. praeocc.,

nec Linnaeus, 1758). Apis gibbosa Christ, 1791: 177, nom. nov. for Nomada gibba Fabricius, 1775 (nom. praeocc., nec

Linnaeus, 1758). Melitta sphecoides Kirby, 1802: 46, ♀ (type locality: England). Melitta picea Kirby, 1802: 48, ♂ (type locality: England). Andrena austriaca Fabricius, 1804: 325, ♀ (type locality: Denmark) (nom. praeocc., nec Panzer, 1798). Dichroa analis Illiger, 1806: 48, nomen novum for Nomada gibba Fabricius, 1775 (nom. praeocc., nec

Linnaeus, 1758). Sphecodes apicatus Smith, 1853: 36, ♀ (syntypes: ♀, India, Simla; NHMUK). Synonymized by

Blüthgen 1927: 27. Sphecodes nigripennis Morawitz, 1876: 257, ♀ (type locality: Kazakhstan). Sphecodes indicus Bingham, 1898: 123, pl. a, fig. 10, ♂. Syn. nov. Sphecodes sutor Nurse, 1903: 538, ♀ (syntypes: ♀♀, India, Jammu and Kashmir; NHMUK).

Synonymized by Blüthgen 1927: 27. Sphecodes gibbus var. rufispinosus Meyer, 1920: 113, ♀ (type locality: Spain). Sphecodes gibbus var. turkestanicus Meyer, 1920: 113, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Uzbekistan, “Golodnaja

Steppe”; China: Jarkand, Xinjiang). Sphecodes castilianus Blüthgen, 1924: 473, ♀ (type locality: Portugal). Sphecodes lustrans Cockerell, 1931b: 411, ♂ (type locality: Morocco). Sphecodes angarensis Cockerell, 1937: 3–4, ♀ (type locality: Russia, Irkutsk Prov.). Sphecodes pergibbus Blüthgen, 1938: 50, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Cyprus).

Sphecodes indicus – Saini & Rathor 2012: 162. — Rajkumar & Dey 2016: 1841.

Sphecodes gibbus – Ascher & Pickering 2020: map.

Diagnosis and descriptive notes

See Astafurova et al. (2018a: 17).

Material examined

INDIA • 1 ♂, holotype of Sphecodes indicus Bingham, 1898; “Type // Simla, 5. 97. // Sphecodes indicus (Bingh) // B.M.Type HYM 17a560”; NHMUK 013380329 • 1 ♀; Simla; May 1898; C.G. Nurse leg.; NHMUK 013380335.

Distribution

Himalayas: India (Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh); North Africa, Europe (north to 63° latitude), Russia (east to Yakutia), Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Iran, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang).

Remarks

The record of S. indicus from Mussoorie (Uttarakhand, India) by Saini & Rathor (2012: 162) is doubtful.

Notes

Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia & Proshchalykin, Maxim, 2020, New and little-known bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from the Himalayas, pp. 74-120 in European Journal of Taxonomy 729 on pages 92-93, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1195, http://zenodo.org/record/5705318

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA8783FFDEFF81B743FBE5FAFFFC2E

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5705322 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5705324 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3918370 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/959D978DD341A688B8A37668CDAD098E (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1195 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5705318 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC3FFFBFFCCFF92B504FFE5FF88FFBD (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/2FA17849-A224-4B0B-8894-EDB6ECBE029B (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03FA8783FFDEFF81B743FBE5FAFFFC2E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/190305240 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/3508/taxon/03FA8783FFDEFF81B743FBE5FAFFFC2E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Family
Halictidae
Genus
Sphecodes
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
NHMUK 013380329 , NHMUK 013380335
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
gibbus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Sphecodes gibbus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2020

References

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