The bees of the genus Sphecodes Latreille 1804 of the Russian Far East, with key to species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) Author Astafurova, Yulia V. Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. text Zootaxa 2014 3887 5 501 528 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.5.1 712bf058-4950-4128-8a6e-f4035b88c85f 1175-5326 251121 1CCC459F-ACE3-4073-AEAE-97D4C3566E68 Sphecodes simillimus Smith 1873 (Figs 19, 49, 50, 63, 72, 92, 95, 110b) Sphecodes simillimus Smith 1873 : 199 , ♀ ( holotype –♀, Japan : Honshu, Hiogo, 5 labels (see Tsuneki 1983 : 30 ); BMHN). Sphecodes esakii Strand et Yasumatsu 1938 : 78 , ♂ ( holotype –♂, Chikuzen, Fukuoka). Synonymized by Tsuneki 1983 : 30 . Material examined. Russia . Primorskiy Terr .: 1 ♂ , Vinogradovka, 9.VIII.1929 , Kirichenko; 1 ♀, Tigrovyi, 17.VI.1975 , NK; 1 ♀, 5 km SE Kievka, 15.VI.1981 , YP; 1 ♀, 23 km SE Lazo, Perekatnoe, 4.IX.1981 , YP; 1 ♀, Anisimovka, 31.V.1994 , AL; 1 ♀, Novokachalinsk, Khanka Lake, 4-7.VIII.2006 , SB; 1 ♀, 70 km SE Chuguevka, 12.VII.2010 , VL; Khabarovsk Terr .: 1 ♀, Komsomolskiy Nature Reserve, Kamennaya pad’, on Salix sp., 12.V.1988 , VM; 1 ♀, Shargol, 12.V.1980 , VM; 1 ♀, Pivan’, 13.V.2001 , MP; Sakhalin : 1 ♀, Novikovo, 22.VII.1978 , AL; 1 ♀, Novoaleksandrovsk, 27.VII.1978 , AL; 1 ♂ , 30.VII.1978 , A. Basarukin; 1 ♂ , Kostromskoe, 15.VIII.1978 , A. Basarukin; 1 ♀, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 14.VII.1959 , S. Klumov, I. Keizer; 1 ♀, 5.VIII.1978 , AL; 2 ♀, Dolinsk, 21-23.V.1985 , S. Kholin, A. Plutenko; Kuril Islands . Kunashir, 1 ♂ , Peschanoe lake, 17.VII.1980 , AL; 1 ♀, Alekhino, 30.VII.1981 , YP; 1 ♀, Tret’yakovo, 26-30.VII.2011 , MP, VL; 1 ♂ , Dokuchaeva Cape, 30.VII–6.VIII.2013 , YS, LS; 17 ♀, 15 ♂ , Ivanovskii Cape, Grozovoe, 4–10.IX.2013 , YS, LS. Distribution . * Russia : *Primorskiy Terr, *Khabarovsk Terr., *Sakhalin, *Kuril Islands (Kunashir); Japan [Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu] ( Mitai & Tadauchi 2013 ). FIGURES 90–95. Male, head in frontal and dorsal views: 90— Sphecodes laticaudatus Tsuneki ; 91— S . orientalis , sp. nov. ; 92— S . simillimus Smith ; 93— S . cristatus Hagens ; 94— S . longulus Hagens ; 95— S . nippon Meyer.