Halictus scutellaris 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

32. Halictus scutellaris Morawitz, 1876 Figure 27

Halictus scutellaris Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 238, ♀.

Type locality.

Bairkum (Chimkent Province, Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kazakhstan: Bayrakum [= Bairkum]; Tajikistan: Pendzhikent, Iori.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Pesenko 1986a: 140, 4.[V.1871] // Байракумъ [Kazakhstan, Chimkent Province, Bairkum, Syr-Darya River, 42°05'N, 68°10'E] // Halictus scutellaris Mor., [N]359 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus scutellaris Mor., ♀, design. Pesenko [1]985 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(5 ♀). 1 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype; 1 ♀, 30.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Iori] // N[359] [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, Байракумъ [Bayrakum] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // scutellaris F. Mor., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 2 ♀, 4.[V.1871] // Байракумъ [Bayrakum] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Hal. scutellaris Mor., design. Pesenko [1]985 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Leuchalictus) scutellare (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

Description of male. Blüthgen 1929: 53, as Halictus scutellaris .

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

Distribution.

Southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China (Xinnjiang) ( Pesenko 1986a, Murao et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 27. Halictus scutellaris Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B metasoma, dorsal C view head, frontal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.