ISRAEL JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY VOL. IX 1974 THE HALICTIDAE OF ISRAEL
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ISRAEL JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY VOL. IX 1974
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THE HALICTIDAE OF ISRAEL (HYMENOPTERA, APOIDEA)
II. GENUS LASIOGLOSSUM
A B S T R A C T
73 species belonging to the genus Lasioglossum are reported from Israel and Sinai;
another 5 species are also mentioned, occurring in neighbouring areas, which probably will also be
found later in Israel.
The following new taxa of the genus Lasioglossum, subgenus Evylaeus are described by
Ember: L. leptocephalum (Bliithgen) ssp.slnaiticum ♀, L. israelense ♀, L. sublineare ♀ ♂, L.
masculuitj (Perez) ♂, L. mose ♀, L. katharinae ♀, L.pseudo- sphecodlmorphum (Bliithgen) ♂,L.
balneorum ♀ ♂, L. nabardlcum (Bliithgen) ♂,
L. polltum (Schenck) ssp; aramaeum ♀ ♂
INTRODUCTION
Bliithgen (1955) started. the revision of the HalIctidae
of Israel with the genus Halictus. In this second part. the genus
Lasioglossum is discussed, and this concludes the so-called
"Halictus" species (sensu Latreille) in the older sense as
stipulated by Bliithgen (1955) and afterwards. In the intro-
duction to the afore-mentioned paper, Bliithgen very critically
analyzes the generic subdivision of the old genus Halictus, but
in his latest paper (1961) he generally accepted the views of
Michener (1944) and even added a new subgenus Vestitolialic- tus.
Concerning the European fauna Ebmer also accepted in general the
view of Michener with the exception of the genus Chlorhalictus
(Dialictus according to Mitchell 1960),charac terized by its
greenish body colour; the reasons for thisr opinion are
extensively discussed in Ebmer (1969).
H. Bytinski-Salz
Department of Zoology
Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel
A.W. Ebmer
Puchenau 1
A-4020
and
Linz, Austria