Yu. A. Pesenko
Contributions to the halictid fauna of the Eastern Palaearctic Region: genus Halictus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, Halictinae).
Number: 150, Pages: 1 - 24
The paper presents the results of the taxonomic study of the bees of the genus Halictus s. str. mostly deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), Institute Biology and Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok), and Institute of Zoology of Academia Sinica (Beijing, China). In the total, 10 species of the genus Halictus were revealed in the Eastern Palaearctic Region: H. brunnescens (Eversmann), H. compressus (Walckenaer), H. hedini Blüthgen, H. maculatus Smith, H. minor Morawitz, H. quadricinctus (Fabricius), H. rubicundus (Christ), H. senilis (Eversmann), H. stachii Blüthgen, and H. tsingtouensis Strand. A key to all of them is given. An annotated list of the species includes data for each of species on its synonymy, general geographical distribution, published records from the Eastern Palaearctic Region, and the material examined.