The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution V. Family Andrenidae, genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775, species described by E. Eversmann Author Astafurova, Yulia V. 0000-0003-0557-7792 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia. Yulia. Astafurova @ zin. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0557 - 7792 stafurova@zin.ru Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. 0000-0001-7870-8226 Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok- 22, 690022, Russia. proshchalikin @ biosoil. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7870 - 8226 proshchalikin@biosoil.ru Author Sidorov, Dmitry A. Kemerovo State university, Kemerovo, 650000, Russia. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-09-29 5190 3 393 418 journal article 156936 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.4 dbb1d85c-f412-467d-8c89-6f7f6eb909d7 1175-5326 7138248 AA174B03-80AB-4CF7-BAA9-EF3B9FCEBA21 Andrena hirticeps Eversmann, 1852 Andrena hirticeps Eversmann, 1852: 17 , . Published (original) locality: “in provincia Orenburgensi”. Current status. ? Andrena ( Taeniandrena ) afzeliella ( Kirby, 1802 ) . Remark. We have not found any specimens from Eversmann’s collection labeled as “ hirticeps . The current status is unclear. Andrena hirticeps Eversmann, 1852 was synonymized by Morawitz (1866: 9) with A. afzeliella ( Kirby, 1802 ) . According to Warncke (1967: 248) and Gusenleitner & Schwarz (2002: 564) the name Andrena afzeliella ( Kirby, 1802 ) is a junior synonym of A. ovatula ( Kirby, 1802 ) . However, ( Praz et al. (2022) consider A. afzeliella ( Kirby, 1802 ) to be a valid species. Taxonomy of the subgenus Taeniandrena remains unclear and requires further revision. Distribution. Europe, Egypt , Russia (European part), Caucasus, Turkey , Israel , Syria , Lebanon , Jordan , Iran ( Praz et al. (2022) . Distribution in Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia and Northwest China is unclear.