The bee family Halictidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Central Asia collected by the Kyushu and Shimane Universities Expeditions

We are grateful to late Dr. Vitaly Kastcheev (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Dr. Roman Jaschenko (Zoological Institute, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Almaty, Kazakhstan), Mr. Nabijan (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Mr. Askhat (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Dr. Ahmatjan Dawut (Fukuoka, Japan), Dr. Shuichi Ikudome (Kagoshima Women's College, Kagoshima, Japan), and Dr. Katsushi Mitai (Fukuoka, Japan) for their kind support in the field survey in Central Asia. We also express our thanks to Dr. Layne Westover (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan) for his kindness in brushing up an early draft. Murao wishes express to special thanks to Mr. Fritz Gusenleitner (Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria), Mr. Maximilian Schwarz (Linz, Austria), and Dr. Yulia Astafurova (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) for their help in examining the Palaearctic Halictidae in their collections. This research was supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Nos. 14405025, 24405016) (Head investigator: Tadauchi), the JSPS Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits (to Murao), and the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-9-2 (8)) of the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (to Tadauchi).