Sphecodes ephippius

Sphecodes ephippius
	Sphecodes ephippius bee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Belly-bellied
Superfamily:	Apoidea
Family:	Halictidae
Subfamily:	Halictinae
Gender:	Sphecodes
View:	Sphecodes ephippius
Latin name
	Sphecodes ephippius (Linné, 1767)
Synonyms
	Sphex ephippia Linné, 1767; Apis minimus Harris, 1776 (nec Poda, 1761); Apis obscura Geoffroy, 1785 (nec Linné, 1774, nec Müller, 1776); Apis rufescens Geoffroy, 1785 (nec Gmelin, 1790); Apis rufescens Gmelin, 1790 (nec Geoffroy, 1785); Apis labiata Fabricius, 1793; Melitta divisa Kirby, 1802; Andrena minuta Fabricius, 1804; Sphecodes similis Wesmael, 1835; Sphecodes zablocki Blüthgen, 1923;

Sphecodes ephippius (lat.) - a species of solitary bees from the genus Sphecodes (tribe Halictini , family Halictidae ).

Content

1 Distribution
2 Description
3 See also
4 notes
5 Literature
6 References

Distribution

Northern Eurasia. Southern and central Europe. Caucasus , Kazakhstan , Russia (east to Irkutsk ), Central Asia , Turkey , Mongolia , North Africa ^[1] .

Description

The body length of females is 7.0–9.0 mm (males 6.0–9.0 mm). The general coloring of the head and chest is black; abdomen mostly red (T1-T3). It is distinguished by short setae on the scape of the antennae, and the absence of a longitudinal keel on the upper part of the head. Weakly insects, the body is almost naked. Males: the clypeus is black, the face with white pubescence is below the antennal toruli, the ventral surface of the flagellum segments usually carries a distinct zone of sensilla (tyloides). Females: labrum with a wide apical protrusion without a longitudinal roller; metabasibial plate absent; hind tibia without tartlet. Kleptoparasites of other bee species ^[1] ^[3] , including Halictus , Andrena , Lasioglossum ( Lasioglossum laticeps , Lasioglossum leucozonium , Lasioglossum malachurum , Lasioglossum pauxillum , Lasioglossum quadrinotatulum ) ^[2] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ Astafurova Yu. V., M. Yu. Proshchalykin, MS Engel. The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Kazakhstan (English) // Far Eastern Entomologist: Journal. - Vladivostok : REO and BPI FEB RAS , 2018. - Vol. 369. - P. 1-47. - ISSN 1026-051X . - DOI : 10.25221 / fee.369.1 .
↑ ¹ ² Petr Bogusch & Jakub Straka. Review and identification of the cuckoo bees of central Europe (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Sphecodes ) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2012 .-- Vol. 3311, no. 8 . - P. 1–41. - ISSN 1175-5326 .
↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 406. - 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.

Literature

Astafurova, YV & Proshchalykin, M.Yu. Bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 of Siberia, with a key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) (Eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - 2015. - Vol. 4052, no. 1 . - P. 65-95. - DOI : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4052.1.3. .
Astavurova, Yu.V. & Proshchalykin, M.Yu. The genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) in Central Asia (English) // Zootaxa : Journal. - 2017 .-- Vol. 4324, no. 2 . - P. 249-284. - DOI : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4324.2.3. .

Links

Blutbienen: Sphecodes ephippius . wildbienen.de
Buckelbienen Sphecodes . wildbienen.de
Wildbienen: Artenportraits (Einführung) . wildbienen.de

[Astafurova2018-1] ¹ ² ³ Astafurova Yu. V., M. Yu. Proshchalykin, MS Engel. The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Kazakhstan (English) // Far Eastern Entomologist: Journal. - Vladivostok : REO and BPI FEB RAS , 2018. - Vol. 369. - P. 1-47. - ISSN 1026-051X . - DOI : 10.25221 / fee.369.1 .

[Europe-2] ¹ ² Petr Bogusch & Jakub Straka. Review and identification of the cuckoo bees of central Europe (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Sphecodes ) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2012 .-- Vol. 3311, no. 8 . - P. 1–41. - ISSN 1175-5326 .

[опр1-3] Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. III. Hymenoptera. The first part // Suborder Apocrita - Calf-bellied ( Arnoldi K.V. et al.) / Under the general. ed. G. S. Medvedev . - L .: Nauka, 1978.- S. 406. - 584 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 119). - 3500 copies.