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

jected as in members of Anthidium s. str., middle of disk with sparse, broader and shallower punctures than in mesoscutum, with somewhat long, erect yellowish white hairs, apical margin very slightly emarginate in middle, narrowly yellow (the yellow interrupted in middle); axillae marked with yellow; propodeum shining, anterior half with somewhat sparse shallow punctures, denser at sides, lower half polished, impunctate and shining coxae, trochanters and femora black ; tibiae brownish black beneath and yellow above; tarsi with basitarsi yellow, small joints light reddish brown (last joint darker); claws brownish black at the apex; hind spurs yellowish brown; anterior femora with dense shining white hairs on outer side; middle and hind femora with sparse and short shining white hairs ; tibiae with shining white hairs, denser and larger on anterior and middle ones on outer side; tarsi covered with shining white hairs above; arolia absent; wings very slightly infuscate; marginal cell infuscated anteriorly and pterostigma brownish black; second recurrent vein interstitial with the line of the apex of second transverse cubital vein; distance between lateral ocelli shorter than same to the top of eyes. First tergite with a lateral pale yellow mark covering sides, with basal half somewhat sparsely and shallowly punctured (the punctures denser at sides), subapical area densely and somewhat finely punctured, apical margin narrowly polished, impunctate, shining and black; second tergite with a pale yellow mark covering sides, the yellow projected inside as a narrow stripe not reaching the middle, with similar punctures as thepreceding, the punctures of subapical area somewhat finer ; third tergite with a transverse, broad pale yellow stripe notched in middle anteriorly, with similar punctures to the preceding ; fourth tergite with transverse pale yellow strip e slightly notched in middle anteriorly; fifth tergite nearly pale yellow, with a small, subapical median black area, very slightly convex laterally, without lateral tooth; sixth tergite pale yellow, with a small subapical median black area, toothed at each side, teeth narrowly black at base : seventh tergite with a lobe at each side, longer than broad, parallel sided and blunty edged at the apex, between the lateral lobes an emargination and in its middle a blunty edged produced spine not reaching the apex of lateral lobes and with a longitudinal carina from base to apex in middle; seventh tergite black, lateral teeth yellow slightly suffused with reddish brown in middle ; pilosity on tergites white, somewhat long and sparse, denser at sides and not forming apical bands; sixth sternite broad, shining, longitudinally and broadly polished in middle, remainder of disk somewhat densely punctured, with a large triangular projection at each anterior side, anterior margin with a short, somewhat broad, longitudinal convex projection in middle and its sides triangularly projecting (Fig. 1); pilosity of sternites dense, dull yellowish white. Afghanistan: Sanglitsh-Pass (Minjan Mts) 3700 m., 1 tf (type), 2 tftf (paratypes), 3. VIII. 1952 (J. KLAPPERICH), type and one paratype in Hungarian Natural History Museum, paratype in my collection. This species may be compared with Anthidium taschenbergii F. MOR. (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., XXVIII, 1894, p. 52), male from Turkestan. I have examined 1 tf Anthidium taschenbergii F. MOR., from Kondara Valley (Hissar Mts) 1100 m. (V. GUSSAKOVSKIJ) and it differs from Anthidium afghanistanicum sp. nov., as follows: Anthidium taschenbergii F. MOR., male length 13 — 14 mm. First tergite shining, basal margin very narrowly densely punctured, remainder very sparsely and finely punctured, with a polished area between the sides and the polished apical margin ; fifth tergite with a small lateral tooth; sixth tergite with a large lateral tooth; seventh tergite with a broad, parallel sided, bluntly edged lateral spines, between the spines with an emargination and with a produced spine not reaching the apex of apical margin of the lateral spines; sixth sternite very different from the same in Anthidium afghanistanicum sp. nov., tf, somewhat, broad, densely punctured, with a longitudinal polished area in middle of disk and with Inoth-like projection at each lower side, anterior margin produced and edentate, with a short, median longitudinal bluntly edged narrow projection (fig. 2).