Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) pictipes Nylander 1852

Hylaeus (Paraprosopis) pictipes Nylander, 1852 Sphex annulata Panzer, 1798: 53.1. ♂. Type material lost. Austria. Secondary homonym of Apis annulata Linnaeus, 1758. Hylaeus pictipes Nylander, 1852: 95–97. ♀. Sweden, Västergötland. Lectotype ♀ NHRS Stockholm. Prosopis varipes Smith, 1853: 21. ♂ (nec ♀). Britain. Lectotype ♂ NHM London. Prosopis excisa Schenck, 1853: 216–217. ♂ ♀. Germany, Nassau. Holotype ♂ SMF Frankfurt am Main. Hylaeus vicinus Förster, 1871: 1055–1056. 1 ♀. Germany, Aachen. Holotype ZSS Munich. Secundary homonym of Prosopis vicina Sichel, 1867. Hylaeus melanarius Förster, 1871: 1066–1067. ♀. Germany, Aachen. Holotype ZSS Munich. Hylaeus claripennis Förster, 1871: 1069–1070. ♀. Germany, Aachen. Holotype ZSS Munich. Hylaeus panzeri Förster, 1871: 1082. Austria. New name for Sphex annulata Panzer, 1798. Prosopis trimaculata Schenck, 1875: 326. ♂. Germany, Nassau. Holotype SMF Frankfurt am Main. Prosopis aquisgranensis Dalla Torre, 1896: 25. New name for Hylaeus vicinus Förster, 1871. Prosopis pictipes var. nigriscutum Alfken 1913: 27. ♂. Germany, Aachen. Holotype ZMB Berlin. Diagnosis. Small, dainty species with fine sculpture of the mesosoma and slender metasoma. Males can be clearly identified by the tapering gonoforcipes; terminalia Fig. 52. Scapes slender, often with yellow line on front. Females with light yellow side spots, usually large, filling out; sometimes also clypeus spotted (Fig. 4); not always easy to distinguish from H. taeniolatus (Fig. 5). Distribution. Europe: in the North to 60 ° N in Sweden (Småland) and Finland (Åland Islands), east to the Urals (Perm). In the west, it is recorded from the Iberian Peninsula and in southern England and Wales. Asia: Turkey, Black Sea coast (Sinop, Erzurum; Özbek and Dathe 2020). Remarks. The species has now also become established in the New World, as reported by Gibbs and Dathe (2017): Canada (Ontario), and USA (Ohio, Pennsylvania). The wide distribution of H. pictipes in Europe suggests it may also thrive under a broad range of climate conditions in North America.