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 29. Hylaeus brunnescens Eversmann, 1852 ( Figs 29 a–e) Hylaeus brunnescens Eversmann, 1852: 34 (key), 36, ♀ . Type locality: Orenburg ( Russia ). Published (original) locality: “in provincia Orenburgensi australiore”. FIGURES 29a–e. Hylaeus brunnescens Eversmann, 1852 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels. Lectotype : ♀ , designated by Pesenko 1984a: 19 ; Orb. [ Russia , Orenburg , 51°46′N 55°06′E ] // brunnescens Ev. , ♀ // Lectotypus , Halictus brunnescens Eversmann (Ev.) design. Pesenko [1]981 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000152 . Paralectotype : ♀ , Orb. [ Russia , Orenburg ] // Hylaeus // Hylaeus brunnescens Evsm , ♀ , Cotype, Coll. Evers- mann // Paralectotypus , H. brunnescens Ev. , ♀ , design. Pesenko [1]981 <red label>. Current status. Halictus ( Halictus ) brunnescens ( Eversmann, 1852 ) (according to Pesenko 1984a: 10 ). Remark. Description of male: Friese 1916: 29–30 , as Halictus quadricinctus var. aegyptiacus (synonymized by Pesenko 1984d: 346 ). Distribution. Europe, Russia (European part, North Caucasus, Crimea, Urals, Eastern Siberia), North Africa, Israel , Asia Minor , Caucasus, Turkey , Afghanistan , Iran , Kazakhstan , Central Asia, Pakistan , Northwestern and Northern China ( Pesenko 2005b ).