Halictus sogdianus 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

33. Halictus sogdianus Morawitz, 1876 Figures 28

Halictus sogdianus Morawitz, 1876: 216 (key), 227, ♀.

Type locality.

Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Dshyuzak [=Jizzakh], Iskander [River]; Kyrgyzstan: Osh.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Blüthgen 1934a: 303, 7.[VII.1870] // Самаркандъ [Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 39°39'N, 66°57'E] // Halictus sogdianus Mor., [N]342 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // sogdianus Mor., ♀, Lecto-Holotype, Blüthgen det. 1931 // Lecto-Type <red label> // Lectotypus Halictus sogdianus Mor., design. Blüthgen 1934 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(5 ♀). 1 ♀, 21.[VI.1870] // Искандеръ [Iskander] // [N]342; 1 ♀, 2.[VIII. 1871] // Ошъ [Osh] // [N]342; 2 ♀, 4.[VII.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // [N]342; 1 ♀, 18.[VII.1870] // Джюзакъ [Dzhyuzak] // [N]342 // Paralectotype Halictus sogdianus Mor. design. Blüthgen <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Halictus (Vestitohalictus) pulvereus Morawitz, 1874 (synonymised by Ebmer 1988b: 576).

Distribution.

Russia (European part, North Caucasus, Crimea), Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Mongolia, north-western China ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017).

Figures

Figure 28. Halictus sogdianus Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C metasoma, dorsal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B-D).