Halictus minor 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

22. Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876 Figure (see Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2020: 418, figs 15a-e).

Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key), 233, ♀.

Type locality.

30 km SSE Samarkand, Sangu-dzhuman Pass (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Gus [near Urgut], Sangy-Dzhuman; Tajikistan: Pyandzhikent.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Pesenko 1984: 23, <golden circle> // Сангы Джуманъ [Uzbekistan, Sangy-dzhuman Pass, 30 km SSE Samarkand, 39°20'N, 67°19'E] // 25.[V.1869] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus H. minor Mor., design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000164 [ZISP].

Paralectotypes

(3 ♀). 1 ♀, Сангы Джуманъ [Sangy Dzhuman] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syn.: jarkandensis Strand, ♀ // Paralectotypus H. minor Mor., design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label>[ZISP]; 1 ♀, 25.[V.1869] // Сангы Джуманъ [Sangy Dzhuman] // Halictus minor Mor., [N]352 [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 24.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Gus] // [N]352 // Paralectotypus H. minor Mor., design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Halictus (Platyhalictus) minor Morawitz, 1876.

Remarks.

Description of male. Blüthgen 1936: 295, fig. 11.

Distribution.

Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Altai, Pakistan, north-western and northern China, northern India ( Pesenko 2005a, b).