The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko

Yulia V Astafurova; Maxim Yu Proshchalykin

doi:10.3897/zookeys.994.58441

The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko

Zookeys. 2020 Nov 17:994:35-104. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.994.58441. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Yulia V Astafurova¹, Maxim Yu Proshchalykin²

Affiliations

¹ Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab., 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Saint Petersburg Russia.
² Federal Scientific Centre for East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences Vladivostok Russia.

Abstract

The type specimens of the family Halictidae, described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University and in the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Russia), are critically reviewed. Precise information with illustrations of types for 43 taxa is provided. Lectotypes are here designated for the following seven nominal taxa: Halictus aprilinus Morawitz, 1876, H. cingulatus Morawitz, 1876, H. laevinodis Morawitz, 1876, H. limbellus Morawitz, 1876, H. nasica Morawitz, 1876, H. rhynchites Morawitz, 1876 and H. vulgaris Morawitz, 1876.

Keywords: Anthophila; Apiformes; Palaearctic Region; lectotypes; taxonomy.

Yulia V. Astafurova, Maksim Yu. Proshchalykin.