In the footsteps of history: the bees of the genus Hylaeus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Apoidea: Colletidae) collected by V.I. Roborovsky and P.K. Kozlov in Northwest China (1895-1926)

Maxim Yu Proshchalykin; Holger H Dathe

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.11

In the footsteps of history: the bees of the genus Hylaeus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Apoidea: Colletidae) collected by V.I. Roborovsky and P.K. Kozlov in Northwest China (1895-1926)

Zootaxa. 2018 Jun 18;4434(3):573-588. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.11.

Authors

Maxim Yu Proshchalykin¹, Holger H Dathe

Affiliation

¹ Federal Scientific Center of East Asian terrestrial biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia.. user@example.com.

PMID: 30313181
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.11

Abstract

An annotated list of 19 species of Hylaeus collected by the famous Russian explorers and travellers V.I. Roborovsky and P.K. Kozlov in Northwest China (1895-1926) is given. Hylaeus (Hylaeus) roborovskyi Proshchalykin Dathe, sp. nov. is described as new from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The following eight known species are newly recorded from China: Hylaeus angustatus (Schenck, 1861), H. arenarius Morawitz, 1876, H. breviceps Morawitz, 1876, H. communis Nylander, 1852, H. fedtschenkoi (Cockerell, 1906), H. pallidicornis Morawitz, 1876, H. pesenkoi Proshchalykin Dathe, 2016, and H. vulgaris Morawitz, 1876, increasing the number of species reported from the region to 48. New synonymy is established for Hylaeus tsingtauensis (Strand, 1915) = H. montivagus Dathe, 1986, syn. nov.

Keywords: Hymenoptera, fauna, Palaearctic region, taxonomy, new records, new species.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution*
Animal Structures
Animals
Bees
China
Hymenoptera*
Russia