Halictus vulgaris 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

36. Halictus vulgaris Morawitz, 1876 Figure 31

Halictus vulgaris Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 250, ♀.

Type locality.

Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Samarkand, Katty-Kurgan [Kattakurgan].

Lectotype (designated here).

♀, 3.[III.1869] [Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 39°39'N, 66°57'E // Hylaeus [sic!] vulgaris Mor., [N]379 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus vulgaris Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(257 ♀). 26 ♀, 4., 20., 23., 30.[III.1869], 3., 11., 19.[IV.1869] // Самаркндъ [Samarkand]; 5 ♀, 28.[IV.1869] // Каттыкурганъ [Kattykurgan]; 222♀, 10., 11., 24., 26., 27., 28., [II.1871], 23., 24. [III.1871], 1., 2., 3., 5., 8., 10., 11.[IV.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, 3.[IV.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // к. Ф. Моравица // Halictus vulgaris Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 5.[IV.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz]; 2 ♀, 8.[IV.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, 1.[IV.1871] // Ташкентъ [Tashkent] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus, Halictus vulgaris Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) marginatum ( Brullé, 1832) (synonymised by Blüthgen 1926: 391).

Distribution.

Europe (except North), North Africa, Caucasus, Russia (East of European part, North Caucasus), Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, north India, Nepal ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017).

Remarks.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 116) is invalid because he labelled none of the 222 females from Tashkent deposited in ZMMU.

Figures

Figure 31. Halictus vulgaris Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A head, frontal view B habitus, lateral view and labels C metasoma, dorsal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (B, C), 0.5 mm (A, D).