The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko Author Astafurova, Yulia V. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab., 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-7792 Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. Federal Scientific Centre for East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia text ZooKeys 2020 994 35 104 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.994.58441 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.994.58441 1313-2970-994-35 532128F58058479E82FE6C4B7C7A73FC 393B39D12EC55CC3A3C55FB4C1296D55 35. Halictus varipes Morawitz, 1876 Figure 30 Halictus varipes Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key to females), 220 (key to males), 223, ♀, ♂. Type locality. Jizzakh (Uzbekistan). Published (original) locality. Uzbekistan: Katty-Kurgan [= Kattakurgan], Dzhyuzak [= Jizzakh], Karatyube [= Karatepa near Samarkand], Urgut, Sangy-Dzhuman; Kyrgyzstan: near Osh. Lectotype. ♀, designated by Bluethgen 1955 : 17, 19.[VII.1870] // Dzhyuzak [Uzbekistan, Dzhyuzak (= Jizzakh), 40°07'N , 67°51'E ] // [N]337 // Halictus varipes Mor., ♀, Lecto-Holotype, P. Bluethgen det. // Typus <red label> // Lectotypus Halictus varipes Mor., 1876, design. Bluethgen , 1955 <red label> [ZMMU]. Paralectotypes (1 ♀, 2 ♂). 1 ♂, the same labels as in the lectotype // Halictus varipes Mor. ♂, lecto-Paratype, Bluethgen det.; 1 ♂, the same label, but 14.[VII.1870] // Halictus varipes Mor. ♂, lecto-Holotype, Bluethgen det.; 1 ♀, 20. [VI.1869] // Katty-Kurgan [Katty-Kurgan] // Halictus varipes Mor. ♀, lecto-Paratype, Bluethgen det. // Paralectotype Halictus varipes Mor., design. Bluethgen 1955 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen, labelled by Yu. Astafurova> [ZMMU]. Current status. Halictus (Seladonia) lucidipennis Smith, 1853 (synonymised by Sakagami and Ebmer 1987 : 326). Distribution. Southern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. North Africa, Israel, Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Central Asia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, north-western China, India, Nepal, Myanma,Thailand, Sri Lanka ( Pesenko 2006a ). Figure 30. Halictus varipes Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A head, frontal view B habitus, lateral view and labels C metasoma, dorsal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm ( B ), 0.5 mm ( A, C, D ).