Halictus aprilinus 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

3. Halictus aprilinus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 3

Halictus aprilinus Morawitz, 1876: 216 (key), 228, ♀.

Type locality.

Kattakurgan (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Katty-Kurgan.

Lectotype (designated here).

♀, <golden circle>, 28. [IV.1869] [Uzbekistan, Kattakurgan, 39°53'N, 66°15'E] // ♀ // H. aprilinus n. sp., ♀, F. Morawitz det., typus [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus aprilinus Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes.

3 ♀, 28. [IV.1869] // Каттыкурганъ [Kattakurgan] // [N]343 // Paralectotypus Halictus aprilinus Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) aprilinum (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

Warncke (1982: 76) did not designate the lectotype, but only wrote "Typus Mus. Moskau".

Description of male. Blüthgen 1925a: 119, as Halictus inexspectatus (synonymised by Blüthgen 1931a: 212).

Distribution.

Southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang) ( Pesenko 2007, Murao et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 3. Halictus aprilinus 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), 0.5 mm (B-D).