Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876

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 : 418-419

15. Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876

( Figs 15 a–e)

Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key), 233, ♀.

Type locality: Sangy-dzhuman Pass ( Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality: “Gus [near Urgut, Uzbekistan], Sangy-Dzhuman [ Uzbekistan], Pyandzhikent [ Tajikistan]”.

Lectotype: ♀, designated by Pesenko 1984a: 23; <golden circle> // Сангы ДЖуманъ [ Uzbekistan, Sangydzhuman Pass , 30 km SSE Samarkand, 39°20′N 67°19′E] // 25. [25.V.1869] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus, H. minor Mor. design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Peters- burg INS_HYM_0000164 .

Paralectotype: ♀, Сангы ДЖуманъ [ Uzbekistan, Sangy-dzhuman Pass , 30 km SSE Samarkand] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syn.: jarkandensis Strand , ♀ // Paralectotypus, H. minor Mor. design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label>.

Current status. Halictus (Platyhalictus) minor Morawitz, 1876 .

Remark. Description of male: Blüthgen 1936: 295, Fig. 11 .

Distribution. Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Altai, Pakistan, Northwestern and Northern China, Northern India ( Pesenko 2005a, b).

Figures

FIGURES 11a–e. Halictus funerarius Morawitz, 1876. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—labels; e—mesosoma, dorsal view.

FIGURES 15a–e. Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876. Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma dorsal view; e—labels.