517 Accepted by S. Kambhampati: 13 May 2004; published: 21 May 2004 1 ZOOTAXA ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Copyright © 2004 Magnolia Press Zootaxa 517: 1–6 (2004) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Bees of the subgenus Allocoelioxys Tkalc of the genus Coelioxys Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae) from the Russian Far East MAXIM YU. PROSHCHALYKIN & ARKADY S. LELEJ Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia maxim@ibss.dvo.ru; lelej@ibss.dvo.ru Abstract Coelioxys (Allocoelioxys) manchurica sp. nov. is described and illustrated from the Russian Far East (Primorskii krai). Coelioxys (A.) afra Lepeletier 1841 is newly recorded from the Russian Far East. A key is given for the females of both species from this area. Key words: Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Coelioxys, bees, cleptoparasite, taxonomy, new species, Palaearctic, Russian Far East Introduction The bees of the subgenus Allocoelioxys Tkalc , 1974 are widespread in the Old World, including the Palaearctic region from Europe to China. It also occurs throughout Africa and southern Asia, at least south to Java. Pasteels (1977) reports 21 species in sub-Saharan Africa, and Warncke (1992) reports 15 species in the western Palaearctic. There are at least nine European species and a four additional species in China (Friese 1935). Over 40 spe- cies of this subgenus are known (Michener 2000). Only one species (Coelioxys emargin- ata Förster 1853) of this subgenus has been recorded from the Russian Far East (Romankova 1995). After we examined Romankova’s material, we came to the conclusion that these specimens were misidentified and belong to a new species. A second Allocoe- lioxys species, unknown in the Russian Far East, has been collected during field survey to Amur region in 2003.