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

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.

Assessing five decades of garden bee studies

“…In another case, Lasioglossum (Dialictus) tegulariforme (cited in Pawelek et al, 2009) was combined with L. helianthi due to likely misidentification after conferring with a taxonomic expert on the Lasioglossum genus (J. Gibbs, personal communication). One species, Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) leucopymatum, was removed from the dataset because its identification in Gotlieb et al (2011) is unlikely in Israel; the native region of this species is not known to extend beyond Afghanistan and surrounding countries (Ebmer, 1995, as cited in Astafurova andProshchalykin, 2020). These types of taxonomic updates and quality control checks help to ensure that future efforts to describe urban garden bee communities are as accurate and up to date as possible.…”

The bees of the genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko

“…The present paper is the second part of a series of works dealing with the bee taxa described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Moscow ( ZMMU ) and in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg ( ZISP ). In the first part, the family Halictidae was considered ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2020 ). The main goal of this work is to make Fedtschenko’s collection of bees more accessible and useful to scientists.…”