Halictus picipes Morawitz, 1876

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko, ZooKeys 994, pp. 35-104 : 35

30. Halictus picipes Morawitz, 1876 Figure 25

Halictus picipes Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 244, ♀.

Type locality.

Zeravshan River valley (Tajikistan).

Published (original) locality.

between Panjakent and Iori (Tajikistan).

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Pesenko 1986a: 138, 30.[V.1869] // Заравш.[анская] дол.[ина] [Tajikistan, Zeravshan River valley, between Panjakent and Iori (= Yeri)] // Halictus picipes Mor., [N]369 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotype Halictus picipes Mor., ♀, design. Pesenko [1]985 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(3 ♀). 1 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, <golden circle>, the same label as in the lectotype; 1 ♀, Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Halictus picipes Mor., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Hal. picipes Mor., design. Pesenko [1]985 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Leuchalictus) picipes (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 111) is invalid because he labelled neither of the two females from "valle Serafshan" deposited in ZMMU.

Description of male. Blüthgen in Popov 1935: 362.

Distribution.

Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ( Pesenko 1986a, Ascher and Pickering 2020).

Figures

Figure 25. Halictus picipes Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, C, D), 0.5 mm (B).