Nomada rufipes Fabricius 1793

Nomada rufipes Fabricius 1793: 347, ♀ (lectotype – ♀, designated by Schwarz 1966: 17, “Habitat in Germania ”); Nikiforuk 1957: 156; Osytshnjuk et al. 1978: 454; Sitdikov 1986: 105; Celary 1995: 25; Proshchalykin 2009: 240; Levchenko 2009: 16.

Nomada vaga Panzer 1798: Hf. 55: 22 (type locality: “Habitat in Austria ”).

Nomada solidaginis Panzer 1799: Hf. 71: 21 (type locality: “Habitat in Germania ”).

Apis picta Kirby 1802: 206 (type locality: “Barhamiae” [Great Britain]).

Apis rufopicta Kirby 1802: 207 (type locality: “Barhamiae” [Great Britain]).

Nomada solidaginis var. punctulifera Friese 1921: 252, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Pregrada, Croatia).

Nomada solidaginis var. minutula Friese 1921: 253, ♀, ♂ (type locality: “Weifsenfels, Gumperda, Jena, Oppenau in Baden und Fiume” [Germany, Croatia]).

Nomada fennica Alfken 1924: 36 ♀, ♂ (type locality: “Kirchspiel, Rautu, Ostfinland, Karelische Landenge” [Germany, East Finland, North-West Russia]).

Nomada rufipes nigriventris Alfken 1926: 49 (type locality: “Stuvenwald bei Harburg” [Germany]).

Lectotype data: ♀, with two labels: rufipes [handwritten] // lectotype / Nomada rufipes Fabr. [handwritten] / M. Schwarz 1966 [NHMD]. The type is in very poor condition: head and most of mesosoma missing, legs missing, metasoma holed (pers. comm. of L. Vilhelmsen).

Material examined. Russia. Leningrad Prov.: 2 ♂, Petergof, Morawitz’s coll.; 1 ♀, Kamenka, 6.VIII.1917 (Kiyazhetskiy); 1 ♀, Strelna, 22.VII.1863 (Morawitz); 5 ♀, Ligovo, 24.VII–16.VIII.1864 (Morawitz); 1 ♀, Pargolovo, 20.VI.1883 (Morawitz); 2 ♀, Toskovo, 11.VIII.1928 (Gussakovskij); 1 ♀, Tolmachevo, 24.VII.1961 (Rudolf); 1 ♀, Yashchera, 4–17.VIII.1962 (Stackelberg); Yaroslavl Prov.: 1 ♂, Filino, 20.VII.1927 (Shestakov); 1 ♀, 3 ♂, Berditsino, 3.VII.1892, 11.VII.1894, 27.VI.1890, Jakovlev’s coll.; Kostroma Prov.: 2 ♀, Baidarki, 27.VII.1929 (Gussakovskij); 3 ♀, 1 ♂, Troista, 29.VII.1929 (Gussakovskij); Volgograd Prov.: 1 ♀, Sarepta (Becker); Yakutia: 1 ♂, Betintsy, Amga River, 11.VII.1902 (Olenin); 1 ♀, Novopokrovskoe, Amga River, 7.VIII.1925 (Bianchi); 2 ♀, Olekma River, 3.VIII.1974 (Pesenko); Amurskaya Prov.: 1 ♀, Mikhailovskii, 20.VII.1928 (Tupitsyn). Kazakhstan. 1 ♂, West-Kazakhstan Prov., Yanvartsevo, 7.VIII.1950 (Rudolf) [ZIN, all are identified by M. Schwarz as N. rufipes].

Distribution. Russia (Fig. 2) [European part (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978), Yakutia (Davydova & Pesenko 2002), *Amurskaya Prov.], * Kazakhstan, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Algeria (Celary 1995).

Hosts. Andrena denticulata (Kirby), A. fuscipes (Kirby), A. nigriceps (Kirby), Colletes cinicularius (Linnaeus) (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978).