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Trachusa   pubescens    (Morawitz, 1872) s. l. has a distribution extending from south-eastern Europe over Anatolia and the Caucasus to Iran and Turkmenistan, and was formerly regarded as a species with high intraspecific variation. By means of an examination of 208 specimens from all parts of the distribution area, covering structural features of the head (mandibles, clypeus), the apical terga and the genitalia, the colouration pattern as well as a morphometric analysis of 26 body measurements with multivariate statistical methods (Principal Component Analysis, Discriminant Analysis), it was possible to assign the material to five species of which two are new to science (   Trachusa   balcanica    sp. n.  and    T.   hakkariensis    sp. n. ). Two taxa which had previously been described as “variations” or subspecies are elevated to species rank:    T.   verhoeffi    (Mavromoustakis, 1955),  stat. n.  and    T.   maxima    (Friese, 1931),  stat. n.  Additionally, some populations can be distinguished by their colouration pattern or by subtle differences in size or body shape, but these features are apparently of no taxonomic significance at the species level.    Trachusa   balcanica    sp. n. and    T.   verhoeffi    have distribution areas which do not overlap with any of the other members of the species group and can thus be characterised as allospecies. By contrast, the distribution areas of the other three species,    T.   pubescens   ,    T.   maxima    and    T.   hakkariensis    sp. n., overlap to a certain extent and they co-exist at least to some degree in sympatry. While they have been found in the same region, they have so far never been found together at exactly the same location and it is suggested that species divergence occurred in parallel with ecological differentiation. Niche partitioning such as flower preferences is a mechanism which may be invoked to explain this. Some specimens with intermediate characters were found, particularly in contact zones, and it is thought that some hybridisation may occur. A partly melanistic individual of    T.   balcanica    sp. n.  was found, which is probably the first described melanistic individual in the tribe   Anthidiini  .

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Taxonomic revision proves    Trachusa   pubescens    (Morawitz, 1872) sensu lato to be a complex of allopatric and sympatric species in South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia (  Hymenoptera  ,   Apoidea  ,   Anthidiini  )