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

On Some Bees of the Family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera. Apoidea) from Afghanistan By G. A. MAVROMOUSTAKIS, Limassol, Cyprus The bees recorded and described below were submitted to me for study by the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, through the kindness of Dr. LÁSZLÓ MÓCZÁR and collected from Afghanistan by J. KLAPPERICH. Megachilidae Anthidiinae Anthidiuin s. str. Anthidinm montanum F. Mou., subsp. reiehardti Guss. Anthidium reiehardti V. GUSSAKOVSKIJ (in Abh. d. Pamir Exped. II. Zoologie, 1928, p. 69-70). Anthidium montanum F. MOR. subsp. pamirensis J. D. ALFKEN (in Mitt, Zool. Mus. Berlin, 16, 6. II., 1931, p. 843). GUSSAKOVSKII described Anthidium reiehardti Guss., from Pamir (1928), as a species related to Anthidium comatum F. MOR., and Anthidium montanum F. MOR., and separated it from the two species mostly by cuticular colour differences. GUSSAKOVSKIJ in his description of the male wrote as follows: "Segmento ultimo ut in A. montano F. MOR., configurato, lobis lateralibus externe rotundatis, angustioribus quam in A. eomato F. MOR., lobo mediano spiniformi." I examined 1 Ç 1 çf Anthidium reiehardti Guss., from Pamir: Karankul, 17. VII. 1928 (paratypes) collected by REICHARDT, determined and given to me by the late V. GUSSAKOVSKIJ. Both paratypes of Anthidium reiehardti Guss., are to be considered a subspecies of Anthidium montanum F. MOR., and it may be called Anthidium monranum reiehardti Guss. The males of Anthidium montanum F. MOR., and Anthidium reichtadti Guss. have sixth and seventh tergites and six sternite similar, their main differences being the colour only of pilosity, integument and punctation. Anthidium reiehardti Guss., female and male (paratypes). Head with shining white hairs; vertex, occiput, mesoscutum and scutellum with dense, erect, pale yellowish white hairs (GUSSAKOVSKIJ described the pilosity "in vertice et thoracis disco ferruginato-fuscessenti piloso"), with rich pale yellow cuticular markings; punctation of abdomen less strong or dense than in Anthidium montanum F. MOR. Anthidium montanum F. MOR,, female and male. Pilosity yellow white, abdominal tergites entirely black. The variety Anthidium montanum flavomaculatum FRIESE (Termesz. Füz., 20, p. 440, 1897) is similar to Anthidium montanum F. MOR., with some only minute pale yellow spots on abdomen. A synonym of Anthidium reiehardti Guss., is Anthidium montanum pamirensis ALFKEN (1931) syn. n., both described from Pamir. Anthidium comatum F. MOR., male is very different from Anthidium montanum F, MOH., or Anthidium montanum reiehardti Guss. (material examined from Transbaikalia;