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 15. Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876 ( Figs 15 a–e) Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876: 217 (key), 233, ♀ . FIGURES 15a–e. Halictus minor Morawitz, 1876 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma dorsal view; e—labels. Type locality: Sangy-dzhuman Pass ( Uzbekistan ). Published (original) locality: “Gus [near Urgut, Uzbekistan ], Sangy-Dzhuman [ Uzbekistan ], Pyandzhikent [ Tajikistan ]”. Lectotype : ♀ , designated by Pesenko 1984a: 23 ; <golden circle> // Сангы ДЖуманъ [ Uzbekistan , Sangydzhuman Pass , 30 km SSE Samarkand , 39°20′N 67°19′E ] // 25. [ 25.V.1869 ] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz ] // Lectotypus , H. minor Mor. design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Peters- burg INS_HYM_0000164 . Paralectotype : ♀ , Сангы ДЖуманъ [ Uzbekistan , Sangy-dzhuman Pass , 30 km SSE Samarkand ] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz ] // minor Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz ] // Syn. : jarkandensis Strand , ♀ // Paralectotypus , H. minor Mor. design. Pesenko, [1]981, ♀ <red label>. Current status. Halictus ( Platyhalictus ) minor Morawitz, 1876 . Remark. Description of male: Blüthgen 1936: 295 , Fig. 11 . Distribution. Azerbaijan , Afghanistan , Iran , Kazakhstan , Central Asia, Altai, Pakistan , Northwestern and Northern China , Northern India ( Pesenko 2005a , b).