Halictus pectoralis 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

29. Halictus pectoralis Morawitz, 1876 Figure 24

Halictus pectoralis Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 251, ♀.

Type locality.

Gulcha (Kyrgyzstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kyrgyzstan: Gulsha [Gulcha].

Holotype.

♀, 10.[VIII.1871] // Гульша [Kyrgyzstan, Gulcha, 40°19'N, 73°26'E] // Halictus pectoralis Mor., [N]381 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Holotype H. pectoralis Mor., 1876 <red label, labelled by Yu. Pesenko> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) subaenescens ssp. asiaticus (Dalla Torre, 1896), replacement name for Halictus pectoralis Morawitz, 1876 (nec H. pectoralis Smith, 1853) (subspecies status according to Ebmer 1997: 932).

Remarks.

Description of male. Blüthgen 1923a: 271, as Halictus proximus (synonymised by Warncke 1975: 96).

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 106) is unnecessary as the species was described from a single female that was directly written about by Morawitz (1876: 251).

Distribution.

Egypt, Turkey, Near East, Iran, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Mongolia (Hovd), China (Xinijang) ( Ebmer 1997, Pesenko 2007).

Figures

Figure 24. Halictus pectoralis Morawitz, 1876, holotype, 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).