Halictus vagans Smith, 1857

Wood, T. J., Risch, S., Orr, M. C. & Hogan, J. E., 2025, An illustrated type catalogue of the bee species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace and described by Frederick Smith from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 1028, pp. 1-144 : 7-8

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scientific name	Halictus vagans Smith, 1857
status

Treatment

2. Halictus vagans Smith, 1857

Fig. 2

Halictus vagans Smith, 1857: 42 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • ♀; Sar. [ Sarawak]; [ 29 Oct. 1854 – 10 Feb. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME0882 .

Type locality

Borneo ( Sarawak).

Notes

Baker (1993: 191) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection (Type Hym: 882 1 / 2), formerly standing over the label ‘ vagans Sm. Born. ’ in Saunders’ collection, labelled “SAR.’ [white disc], ‘ Halictus vagans . Smith’ [blue paper, Smith] and ‘Syn.: Halictus cattulus Vach. 1894 ♀ etc. det. Blüthgen 1929.’ [Blüthgen’s hand] may be regarded as the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. It has lost the greater part of the left flagellum: but is otherwise in fair condition”.

Current status

Lasioglossum ( Ctenonomia) vagans ( Smith, 1857) ( Ascher & Pickering 2024; J. Gardner pers. com.).

Distribution

From the East Mediterranean to Papua New Guinea ( Pauly 1986; Ascher & Pickering 2024).