The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution III Family Halictidae, genera Halictus Latreille, 1804, and Sphecodes Latreille, 1804 Author Astafurova, Yulia V. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia. Yulia. Astafurova @ zin. ru; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0557 - 7792 Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. 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 text Zootaxa 2020 2020-06-12 4790 3 401 446 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.3.1 1175-5326 3891137 AB123AA7-5875-434F-B54D-ADC6E3660AE2 37. Sphecodes pesenkoi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2018 ( Figs 37 a–f) Sphecodes pesenkoi Astafurova & Proshchalykin in Astafurova et al ., 2018a: 28 , Figs 20–25 , ♂ . FIGURES 37a–f. Sphecodes pesenkoi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2018 . Holotype, male: a—habitus, lateral view; b—meta-soma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels; f—genitalia, dorsal view. Type locality: Kyzylorda, Kyzylorda Province ( Kazakhstan ). Published (original) locality: corresponds to data on the holotype label (see below). Holotype : ♂ , Перовск, Сыр-Дар.[ьинскаЯ] о.[бласть] [ Kazakhstan , Kyzylorda Province , Perovsk (=Kyzy- lorda), 44°51’N 65°31’E ], 15. V .[1]928, Н. Оленев, В . Попов [ N. Olenev & V . Popov leg.] // Holotypus Sphecodes pesenkoi Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2018 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_ 0000172 . Paratype : ♂ , the same label as in the holotype . Current status. Sphecodes pesenkoi Astafurova & Proshchalykin, 2018 . Remark. Female unknown. Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Kazakhstan .