Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution III Family Halictidae, genera Halictus Latreille, 1804, and Sphecodes Latreille, 1804, Zootaxa 4790 (3), pp. 401-446 : 406-407

4. Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874

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Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874: 173 , ♀.

Type locality: Derbent, Dagestan Republic ( Russia).

Published (original) locality: “ Derbent. Bacu [Baku ( Azerbaijan)]” .

Lectotype: ♀, designated Proshchalykin & Astafurova 2016: 10, <golden circle> // Derbent [ Russia, Dagestan Republic, Derbent, 42°04′N 48°17′E] // cephalicus Mor. Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syntypus <red label> // Lectotypus, Halictus confluens Morawitz , design. Proshchalykin et Astafurova, 2016 <red label>.

Paralectotypes: 7 ♀, Derbent // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // cephalicus Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syntypus <red label>.

Current status. Halictus (Seladonia) cephalicus Morawitz, 1874 .

Remark. Description of male: Blüthgen 1923: 235, Figs 2a, 2b (as Halictus conjungens Blüthgen, 1921 , synonymized by Blüthgen 1926: 414).

Distribution. Europe, Russia (south of European part, North Caucasus, Crimea), Caucasus, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan ( Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017b).

Figures

FIGURES 2a–f. Halictus bagirensis Blüthgen, 1936. Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b—head, frontal view; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—genitalia, dorsal view; e—labels; f—metasoma, dorsal view.

FIGURES 4a–e. Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—labels; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—head, frontal view; e—metasoma, dorsal view.