Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 57. (Budapest 1965)

Mavromoustakis, G. A.: On some bees of the family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Afghanistan

wards middle of apical margin ; seventh tergite yellow, longitudinally black in middle ; fifth tergite with a small lateral tooth ; sixth tergite with a stout lateral tooth ; seventh tergite short, with a broad apically rounded lobe at each side and between the lobes a shallow wide, rounded emargination and having a somewhat broad convexity in middle of its apical margin (Fig. 3) ; pilosity of tergites very sparse and white, denser at sides; sixth sternite broad and shining, brownish black, basal area broadly deep reddish brown, with a short tooth towards its lower sides, with a median, longitudinal, somewhat deep and broad furrow starting from anterior margin and narrowing to the middle of disk; sternites with apical bands of dense greyish white hairs. Female. — Length 12.0 mm. Similar to the male; black; clypeus as long as broad, shining, a little overlapping labrum, apical margin black, straight, with ten small bluntly edged crenulations, otherwise clypeus yellow, with sparse white hairs; antennae black brown, fourth and fifth joints brown in front; second antennái joint longer than broad, shorter than third, but longer than fourth or fifth; third antennái joint longer than broad; fourth and fifth joints as long as broad, equal; paraocular area to level insertion of antennae yellow; occiput with a transverse, broad yellow stripe; pilosity of head below frons white; cheeks with sparse white hairs; occiput with silky white hairs. Mesoscutum shining, strongly, densely rugosely punctured; scutellum little produced over propodeum, apical margin slightly incised in middle, yellow except the basal half; axilla*

1 nearly entirely yellow; mesoscutum with a broad yellow stripe at sides reaching axillae and extended a little anteriorly, yellow; tubercles yellow; anterior femora light reddish brown on inner side, black and tinged with light reddish brown on outer side ; middle and hind femora reddish brown on inner and outer side, black and tinged with reddish brown below, with an apical yellow mark at the apex (smaller in hind ones); anterior tibiae yellow, light reddish brown on outer side : middle tibiae yellow, light reddish brown on inner side, black on outer side ; hind tibiae yellow, black on inner side, light reddish brown on outer side; basitarsi pale yellow, with shining white hairs on outer side ; small tarsal joints reddish brown; femora with white hairs; tibiae with shining white hairs at sides, hind tibiae with dense, short, apical shining white hairs fringe. Abdomen shining; first tergite with a transverse yellow stripe attenuated in middle, the black subapical area somewhat finely and sparsely punctured, apical margin polished; second and third tergites with nearly the anterior half pale yellow, somewhat sparsely punctured, the black disk sparsely and finely punctured; fourth and fifth tergites yellow sparsely punctured, the black subapical area sparsely and finely punctured, apical margin black and impunctate; subapical area and apical margin of fifth tergite tinged with reddish brown; sixth tergite yellow, with small, sparse shining white hairs denser towards the apical margin, short and broad (much broader than long), apical margin neither convex nor rounded, nearly straight towards the middle; fifth tergite convex at sides; tergites almost bare, with very sparse white hairs on the last ones; ventral scopa white. Afghanistan: Larki (Sareka-Tal) 2300 in. 1 0

* (type), 1 ? (allotype), 2 rfçf (paratypes), 3. VIII. 1953 (J. KLAPPERICH). Type, allotype, paratype in Hungarian Natural History Museum, paratype in my collection. Anthidium klapperichi sp. nov., male is related to Anthidium taschenbergii F. MOR., and Anthidium afganistanicum sp. nov., males, but the three species differ in many details. Anthidium klapperichi sp. nov., male has fifth tergite dentate at each side, lateral lobes of seventh tergite broad and rounded at the apex and without a produced spine in middle. Anthidium taschenbergii F. MOR., male, has fifth tergite dentate at each side, seventh tergite with narrow, parallel sided and bluntly edged lateral spines, with a produced, long spine in middle of the emargination reaching the tip of the lateral spines. Anthidium afghanistanicum