New Species and New Records of the Genus Andrena from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)

Abstract

This is the fourth paper of a taxonomic study of the genus Andrena collected during a Kyushu University Expedition to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from 2000 to 20004. Collection data obtained from Central Asia in Oberösterreichischen Landesuseum, Linz and the American Museum of Natural History, New York are added. In this paper two new species, Andrena (Simandrena) kazakhstanensis and A. (Simandrena) iliana, are described and 17 species and 1 subspecies belonging to 12 subgenera are redescribed including 15 species newly recorded from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.