Halictus nasica 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

24. Halictus nasica Morawitz, 1876 Figure 19

Halictus nasica Morawitz, 1876: 216 (key to females), 219 (key to males), 229, ♀, ♂.

Type locality.

Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Southern Kazakhstan: Kysyl-Kum [desert] near draw-well Chakany; Uzbekistan: steppe between Katty-Kurgan and Ulus, Samarkand, Murzarabat, Chinaz, Sokh.

Lectotype (designated here).

♀, 9.[VI.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Uzbekistan, Zeravshan River valley, near Samarkand, 39°39'N, 66°57'E] // Halictus nasica Mor., [N]346 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus nasica Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(28 ♀, 44 ♂). 14 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype; 11 ♀, 2 ♂, 9., 13.[VI.1869], 4., 7.[VII.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // [N]346; 12 ♂, 24.[VII.1870], 29.[VIII.1870] // Мурзарабадъ [Murzarabad] // [N]346; 1 ♀, 9 ♂, 28.[IV.1871] // Кизилъкумъ [Kizilkum] //[N]346; 17 ♂, 25.[VII.1870] // Чиназъ [Chinaz] // [N]346 [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, 28.[IV.1871] // Кизилъкумъ [Kizilkum] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Halictus nasica Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, <golden circle> // 9.[VI.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, near Samarkand] // nasica Mor. Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 3 ♂, 28.[VI.1871] // Сохъ [Sokh] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz]; 1 ♂, 9.[VI.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Halictus nasica Mor., design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Halictus (Vestitohalictus) nasica Morawitz, 1876.

Remarks.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 138) is invalid because he labelled none of the 15 females from "valle Serafshan" deposited in ZMMU.

Distribution.

Morocco, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan ( Murao et al. 2017, Ascher and Pickering 2020).

Figures

Figure 19. Halictus nasica Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A, D), 0.5 mm (B, C).