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 3. Halictus bucharicus Blüthgen, 1936 ( Figs 3 a–e) Halictus bucharicus Blüthgen, 1936: 307 , ♀ , ♂ . FIGURES 3a–e. Halictus bucharicus Blüthgen, 1936 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—labels; e—mesosoma, dorsal view. Type locality: Bokhtar ( Tajikistan ). Published (original) locality: Kurgan-Tyube and Kyzyl-Kala ( Tajikistan ). Lectotype : ♀ , designated by Pesenko 1984a: 19 , ТадЖикистан, Курган-ТЮбе [ Tajikistan , Kurgan-Tyube (= Bokhtar ), 68°46′E 37°50′N ], 7. V .[1]931, Н. Фурсов [ N. Fursov leg.] // к. Шестакова [ Collection of Shestakov ] // bucharicus n. sp. , ♀ , Blüthgen det. 1936 // Lectotypus H . bucharicus Bl. , [1]981 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000158 . Paralectotypus : ♂ , the same labels as in lectotype . Current status. Halictus ( Protohalictus ) bucharicus Blüthgen, 1936 . Distribution. A rare Central Asian species known from seven specimens: southeastern Kazakhstan and Tajikistan ( Pesenko 2005a ).