Halictus obscuratus 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

27. Halictus obscuratus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 22

Halictus obscuratus Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 245, ♀.

Type locality.

Sangy-dzhuman Pass, 30 km SSE Samarkand [Uzbekistan].

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Aksay; Tajikistan: Iori Gorge, Varzaminor [=Ayni], Sangy-Dzhuman Pass.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Warncke 1982: 116, 25.[V.1869] // Сангы Джуманъ [Uzbekistan, Sangy-dzhuman Pass, 30 km SSE Samarkand, 39°20'N, 67°19'E] // Halictus obscuratus Mor., [N]370 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus obscuratus Mor., design. Warncke [19]82 <red label, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(7 ♀). 1 ♀, 3.[IV.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // [N]370; 1 ♀, 27.[II.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // [N]370 // obscuratus [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, [7.VI.1870] // Варзаминоръ [Varzaminor] // [N]370; 1 ♀, 16.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Aksay] // N[370]; 1 ♀, 2.[VI.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Iori Gorge] // N[370]; [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, <golden circle> // 25.[V.1869] // Сангы Джуманъ [Sangy Dzhuman] // obscuratus Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, Сангы Джуманъ [Sangy Dzhuman] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // obscuratus Mor.[handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Halictus obscuratus F. Morawitz, ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Halictus obscuratus Mor., design. Warncke <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) obscuratum ssp. obscuratum (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

Description of male. Blüthgen 1923a: 277.

Distribution.

Europe (except North), Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Russia (North Caucasus), Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017).

Figures

Figure 22. Halictus obscuratus Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B metasoma, dorsal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D head, frontal view E. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.