Halictus fuscicollis 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

15. Halictus fuscicollis Morawitz, 1876 Figure 13

Halictus fuscicollis Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key), 229, ♀.

Type locality.

50 km NW Chardara, Kyzylkum Desert (Turkistan Province, Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Kazakhstan: "Kyzyl-Kum Steppe, near Baybek".

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Warncke 1982: 137, 30.[IV.1871] // Кизилъкумъ [Kazakhstan, Baybek Well, Kyzylkum Desert, ca. 50 km NW Chardara, ≈ 41°44'N, 67°54'E] // Halictus fuscicollis Mor., [N]345 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Halictus Vestitohalictus fuscicollis Mor., ♀, Lectotypus, design. A.W. Ebmer 1994 // Lectotypus Halictus fuscicollis Mor., design. Warncke <red label, labelled by Yu. Pesenko> [ZMMU].

Paralectotype.

1 ♀, <golden circle> Kisilkum [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // fuscicollis Mor. Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus <red label>, labelled by Yu. Astafurova [ZISP].

Current status.

Halictus (Placidochalictus) fuscicollis Morawitz, 1876.

Remarks.

Description of male. Morawitz 1894: 68, as Halictus flavocallosus (synonymised by Blüthgen 1931a: 214).

Distribution.

Southern Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, China (Xinjiang) ( Morawitz 1876, 1894, Murao et al. 2017, Ascher and Pickering 2020).

Figures

Figure 13. Halictus fuscicollis Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.