The bees of the genus Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) of the Caucasus region Author Kuhlmann, Michael Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. text Zootaxa 2016 4161 3 367 385 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.3.5 2df1c739-55a5-4dc6-b722-175438a09769 1175-5326 254881 6CB6DB5C-1243-4D10-AC97-4B5CA1F31802 Colletes eous Morice 1904 Colletes eous Morice 1904 : 43 –44, ♀ , ♂ ( syntypes : ♀♀ , ♂♂ , Helenendorf , Azerbaijan ). Colletes cecrops Morice 1904 : 44 –45, ♂ (type locality: Attica, Greece). Colletes porosicus Strand 1921 : 306 –307, ♀ (type locality: Poros, Greece). Colletes illyricus Noskiewicz 1936 : 120 –123, ♀, ♂ (type locality: Ragusa, Italy). Colletes dimidiatus eous : Warncke 1978 : 339 . Material examined. Armenia : 1 ♂ , Kzldash , Kafanskii distr. [ 44°22'E 41°12'N ], 12.VI.1955 , 1400m , L. Zimina ( ZMMU ) ; 1 ♀ , 18 km E Erevan [ 44°37'E 40°10'N ], 11.VII.1963 , A.G. Soika , Warncke’s coll. ( OÖLM ) ; 1 ♀ , Yardmly , Avash [ 48°10'E 38°50'N ], 1200-1500m , 17.VI.1996 , M. Hauser (coll. Burger ) ; 1 ♀ , SE Salzsee Acinohur [ 47°04'E 40°55'N ], 170 m , 1.VI.2006 , J. Neumayer (coll. Neumayer) ; 1 ♀ , Vayots Dzor prov., Selimi caravanserai [ 45°14'E 39°56'N ], 2020m , 20.VI.2006 , O. Berg (coll. Berg ) ; Azerbaijan : 1 ♂ , Baku [ 49°50'E 40°21'N ], V.1928 , Satunin ( ZISP ). Published records. Noskiewicz 1936 (Armenia: Erevan; Azerbaijan: Helenendorf; Russia: Gelendzyk, Krasnodar Prov.); Aliev 1985a (Azerbaijan: Vezhnali); Aliev & Kirschey 2010 (Azerbaijan: Lerik, Zuvand, Gosmolyan); Kuhlmann & Proshchalykin 2014b (Russia: Severnaya Osetia Republic). General distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Macedonia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.