7. Halictus croceipes Morawitz, 1876 Figure 6

Halictus croceipes Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key to ♀), 220 (key to ♂), 224, ♀, ♂.

Type locality.

Yeri, Sughd Province (Tajikistan).

Published (original) locality.

Kyrgyzstan: Taka; Uzbekistan: Karatyube [Mt., 15 km S Samarkand], Dzham Gorge, Urgut; Tajikistan: Iori.

Lectotype.

♀, designated by Ebmer 1997: 956, <golden circle> // 1.[VI.1869] // Заравш.[анская] дол.[ина] [Tajikistan, Zeravshan River valley, Iori (= Yeri), 39°30'N, 67°52'E] // croceipes Mor. Typ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // croceipes Mor. Blüthgen det. 1935 // Lectotype <red label> // Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) croceipes (Mor.), ♀, Lectotypus, det. A.W. Ebmer 1974 [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(6 ♀). 1 ♀, 20.[V.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Karatyube] // croceipes Mor., [N]338 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // croceipes Mor. Blüthgen det. 1935; 3 ♀, 8.[VIII.1871] // Така [Taka] // [N]338; 1 ♀, 13.[V.1869] // Джамское ущ . [Dzham Gorge] // [N]338 [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, 1.[VI.1869] // Заравшан.[ская] дол.[ина] [Zeravshan River valley, Iori] // к.[оллекция] Ф . Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // croceipes Mor., Blüthgen det. 1935 // Paralectotypus Halictus croceipes Mor., design. Ebmer 1997 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) croceipes (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 106) is invalid because there are two females in ZMMU from the Zeravshan River valley, neither with Warncke’s lectotype label.

Distribution.

Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan (Ebmer 1997, Murao et al. 2017).