Halictus fucosus 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

12. Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 11

Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876: 219 (key), 230, ♂.

Type locality.

30 km SE Kozhatogai, Turkistan Province (Kazakhstan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: steppe between Tashkent and Syrdarya River.

Holotype.

♂, 18.[V.1871] // Степь м.[ежду] С.[ыр] д.[арьей] и Т.[ашкентом] [Kazakhstan, Turkistan Province, steppe between Syrdarya River and Tashkent, 30 km SE Kozhatogai, 41°47'N, 68°23'E] // Halictus fucosus Mor., [N]345 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Halictus senilis Evers. v. fucosus Mor., ♂, P. Blüthgen det. // Holotypus <red label> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Halictus (Argalictus) senilis (Eversmann, 1852) (synonymised by Blüthgen 1922: 47).

Remarks.

The lectotype designation of Warncke (1982: 148) is unnecessary as the species was described from a single male that was directly written about by Morawitz (1876: 231).

Distribution.

North Africa, South and East Europe, Russia (south to Urals Mountains on the east), Caucasus, Turkey, Near East, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017).

Figures

Figure 11. Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876, holotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B metasoma, dorsal view C head, frontal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.