The cuckoo bee genus Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in Kazakhstan Author Astafurova, Yu. V. Author Proshchalykin, M. Yu. Author Engel, M. S. text Far Eastern Entomologist 2018 2018-10-05 369 1 48 http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.369.1 journal article 10.25221/fee.369.1 2713-2196 7164586 1051B5F8-25BD-45DD-B8F4-DAA5F0E29902 Sphecodes monilicornis (Kirby, 1802) DIAGNOSIS. This species is close to species of the gibbus species-group (refer to Diagnosis of Sphecodes anatolicus , above), but differs from them by the strongly curved basal vein (1M) in the hind wing, square-shaped head in females (versus round or oval in females of the gibbus species-group), and unique structure of the male gonostylus ( Fig. 17 ). DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. Hind wing costal margin with 7–8 hamuli. Female. Total body length 7.0–10.0 mm. Head rounded-rectangular on upper margin, squareshaped as seen in frontal view; vertex sparsely punctate, punctures mostly separated by more than а puncture diameter; distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus about 3.5 lateral ocellar diameters. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum irregularly punctate (25–50 μm / 0.5–3); mesepisternum reticulate-rugose; propodeum laterally strigate-rugose. Metasomal T1 disc indistinctly punctate, with a few very fine punctures; T1–T3 red, T4 partly to entirely red; pygidial plate equal or slightly narrower than metabasitarsus. Male. Total body length 7.0–10.0 mm. Head rounded, about as long as wide; vertex strongly elevated, distance from top of head to upper margin of lateral ocellus about 2.5–3 lateral ocellar diameters; tyloids weakly developed, semicircular across basal 1/7–1/5 of ventral flagellar surfaces. Mesoscutum densely punctate, with punctures contiguous to separated by at most 1.5 a puncture diameter. Metasomal T1 finely and sparsely (sometimes indistinctly) punctate; T1 (usually apically), T2, and T3 red; gonocoxite dorsally without impression. MATERIAL EXAMINED. Kazakhstan . West Kazakhstan : 29 ♀ , 12 ♂ (Yanvartsevo; Kharkin, Ural River ; 110 km ESE Dzhambeyta ); Kostanay : 1 ♀ (near Uzynkol [Leninskoye]); Akmola : 1 ♀ (Akmolinsk) ; South Kazakhstan : 2 ♀ , 2 ♂ (10 km SE Novonikolaevka ; 40 km N Tashkent , Darbaza ); Pavlodar : 2 ♂ (Chernoretsk; Irtysh River , 13 km NW Lebyazhye ); East Kazakhstan : 3 ♀ , 7 ♂ ( 18 km SE Zaysan , Temirsu; Cherdoyak River, 45 km NE Kurchum; 20 km ENE Charsk; Ayaguz River, 40 km SE Targabatay; Char River, 50 km SE Semipalatinsk; 20 km SE Aksay; Georgievka); Almaty : 27 ♀ , 10 ♂ ( Almaty ; Aksay ; 30 km Aksay ; 144 km N AlmaAta , Malaysari ; Koktal garden; 3 km S Issik ; Lepsi ; Alakol Lake , Koktuma ; Mataidesert ; Talas Alatau Mts , near Zhabagly ; 4 km E Arkharla , Dzhungar Alatau Mts ) . DISTRIBUTION. Kazakhstan ( West Kazakhstan , Kostanay, Akmola, South Kazakhstan , Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan , Almaty ), Russia , North Pakistan , Europe (north to 64° latitude), Caucasus, Turkey , Central Asia, Mongolia , North Africa.