Halictus equestris 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

10. Halictus equestris Morawitz, 1876 Figure 9

Halictus equestris Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key), 242, ♀.

Type locality.

Khozyay-Dun (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Khodzhaduk [= Khozyay-Dun].

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Warncke 1982: 105, 21.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Uzbekistan, Zeravshan River valley, Khozyay-Dun, 39°24'N, 67°01'E] // Halictus equestris Mor., [N]366 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus equestris Mor., design. Warncke [19]82 <red label> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) equestre (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

Description of male. Morawitz 1876: 219 (key), 243, as Halictus ferghanicus (synonymised by Blüthgen 1926: 391).

According to the Fedchenko list ( Baker 2004: 243), the locality given in Warncke’s lectotype designation is in Uzbekistan, not Tajikistan.

Distribution.

Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, south-eastern Kazakhstan ( Pesenko 1986a, Ascher and Pickering 2020).

Figures

Figure 9. Halictus equestris 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.