Sphecodes schenckii

{{Short description|Species of bee}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn | url = https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/19199160/1 | title = Sphecodes schenckii | accessdate = 16 July 2017 | author1 = P. Bogusch | author2 = J. Straka | year = 2014}}

| taxon = Sphecodes schenckii

| authority = Hagens, 1882

| synonyms = *Sphecodes sulcicollis Perez, 1903

}}

Sphecodes schenckii is a solitary cleptoparasitic bee which is found in southern and eastern Europe and the Middle East. Its host is Lasioglossum discum and possibly Halictus simplex where L. discum does not occur such as in southern Germany and Switzerland. It is rare and there are only a few records from each country from which it has been recorded. It prefers warm open areas, such as grasslands and Mediterranean scrub, and may be threatened by reafforestation and vegetation succession.{{cite journal | author1 = Petr Bogusch | author2 = Jakob Straka | year = 2012 | title = Review and identification of the cuckoo bees of central Europe (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Sphecodes) | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231181295 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3311 | pages = 1–41| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3311.1.1 }} The specific name schenckii is in honour of the German Hymenopterist Adolph Schenck.{{cite journal | author = Hagen Andert | year = 2010 | title = Hymenoptera-type material of Philipp Adolph SCHENCK in the Natural History Collection of the Museum Wiesbaden (MWNH) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae, Sphecidae s. l., Pompilidae) | url = http://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Schenck_Philipp_Adolph_Bembix_30_0002-0011.pdf | journal = Bembix | volume = 30 | pages = 2–11}}