Halictus atomarius 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

4. Halictus atomarius Morawitz, 1876 Figure (see Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2018: 11, figs 7a-e).

Halictus atomarius Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 254, ♀.

Type locality.

Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Tashkent.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Ebmer 1985: 290, 8.[VIII.1870] // Ташкентъ [Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 41°18'N, 69°16'E] // Halictus atomarius Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] / / Syntypus <red label> // Lasioglossum Evylaeus atomarium (Mor.), ♀, Lectotypus, det. A.W. Ebmer 1985 // Lectotypus <red label> [ZISP].

Paralectotype.

1 ♀, 8.[VIII.1870] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // Halictus atomarius Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum ( Evylaeus s.l.) politum atomarium (Morawitz, 1876) (subspecies status according to Ebmer 1988b: 667).

Remarks.

Description of male. Bytinski-Salz and Ebmer 1974: 211, as Lasioglossum politum ssp. aramaeum Ebmer 1974 (synonymised by Ebmer 1985: 290).

Distribution.

Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia ( Bytinski-Salz and Ebmer 1974, Warncke 1982, Pesenko 2007).