Halictus albitarsis 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

1. Halictus albitarsis Morawitz, 1876 Figure 1

Halictus albitarsis Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key to females), 246, ♀.

Type locality.

Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Tashkent.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Warncke 1982: 117, <golden circle> // 21.[III.1869] // Самаркандъ [Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 39°39'N, 66°57'E] // Halictus albitarsis Mor., [N]372 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lasioglossum Evylaeus albitarsis Mor., ♀ = lectotype, det A.W. Ebmer 1993 // Syntypus Lectotypus <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(12 ♀). 6 ♀, 11.[III.1871], 24., 25.[V.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // [N]372; 1 ♀, 23.[III.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // [N]372 // Halictus albitarsis Mor., F. Morawitz det. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, <golden circle>, 11.[III.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // albitarsis Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 3 ♀, 11.[III.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Halictus albitarsis Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 11.[III.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // Paralectotypus Halictus albitarsis Mor., design. Warncke, [19]82 <identical red label on each paralectotype specimens, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) leucopymatum (Dalla Torre, 1896), replacement name for Halictus albitarsis Morawitz, 1876 (nec Hylaeus albitarsis Schenck, 1853, nec Halictus albitarsis Cresson, 1872).

Remarks.

The secondary designation of the lectotype by Ebmer 1995: 585 is unnecessary.

Description of male. Ebmer 1995: 585.

Distribution.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan ( Ebmer 1995).

Figures

Figure 1. Halictus albitarsis 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, D), 0.5 mm (B, C).