Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) limbellum ( Morawitz, 1876 )

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2025, Review of the bee genus Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) fauna of the Ciscaucasia region, Zootaxa 5637 (3), pp. 515-558 : 528-529

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.3.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15562952
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scientific name	Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) limbellum ( Morawitz, 1876 )
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Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) limbellum ( Morawitz, 1876) View in CoL

Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876: 249 View in CoL , ♀. Lectotype: ♀, Uzbekistan: Samarkand; designated by Astafurova & Proshchalykin (2020b: 61); ZMMU.

Published data. Chenikalova 2005: 26 (Stavropol Territory); Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017b: 83 (Dagestan Republic).

Material examined. RUSSIA. Dagestan Republic: 6 ♀, 3 ♂ , Primorskiy, Samur Forest , 41°54′N 48°28′E, 2- 4.07.2018 GoogleMaps , YA; 1 ♀, Barkhan Sarykum , 43°01′N 43°23′E, 29-31. V.2019, MM, KF, VL GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀, Tsudakhar , 42°20′N 47°10′E, 15, 18. VI.2023, MP GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Russia (North Caucasus, south of the European part); southeastern Europe, Israel, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, [nominate subspecies]; North Africa, southwestern Europe [ ssp. ventrale ( Pérez, 1903) ]. The record from China (Gansu) by Morawitz (1889: 364) is based on misidentifications of Lasioglossum sp. from the L. villosulum species group.

Remarks. A rare species.