Halictus varipes 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

35. Halictus varipes Morawitz, 1876 Figure 30

Halictus varipes Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key to females), 220 (key to males), 223, ♀, ♂.

Type locality.

Jizzakh (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Katty-Kurgan [= Kattakurgan], Dzhyuzak [= Jizzakh], Karatyube [= Karatepa near Samarkand], Urgut, Sangy-Dzhuman; Kyrgyzstan: near Osh.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Blüthgen 1955: 17, 19.[VII.1870] // Джюзакъ [Uzbekistan, Dzhyuzak (= Jizzakh), 40°07'N, 67°51'E] // [N]337 // Halictus varipes Mor., ♀, Lecto-Holotype, P. Blüthgen det. // Typus <red label> // Lectotypus Halictus varipes Mor., 1876, design. Blüthgen, 1955 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(1 ♀, 2 ♂). 1 ♂, the same labels as in the lectotype // Halictus varipes Mor. ♂, lecto-Paratype, Blüthgen det.; 1 ♂, the same label, but 14.[VII.1870] // Halictus varipes Mor. ♂, lecto-Holotype, Blüthgen det.; 1 ♀, 20. [VI.1869] // Катты-Курганъ [Katty-Kurgan] // Halictus varipes Mor. ♀, lecto-Paratype, Blüthgen det. // Paralectotype Halictus varipes Mor., design. Blüthgen 1955 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU].

Current status.

Halictus (Seladonia) lucidipennis Smith, 1853 (synonymised by Sakagami and Ebmer 1987: 326).

Distribution.

Southern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. North Africa, Israel, Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Central Asia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, north-western China, India, Nepal, Myanma,Thailand, Sri Lanka ( Pesenko 2006a).

Figures

Figure 30. Halictus varipes 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), 0.5 mm (A, C, D).