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 4. Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874 ( Figs 4 a–e) Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874: 173 , ♀ . FIGURES 4a–e. Halictus cephalicus Morawitz, 1874 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—labels; c—mesosoma, dorsal view; d—head, frontal view; e—metasoma, dorsal view. Type locality: Derbent, Dagestan Republic ( Russia ). Published (original) locality: “ Derbent. Bacu [ Baku ( Azerbaijan )]” . Lectotype : ♀ , designated Proshchalykin & Astafurova 2016: 10 , <golden circle> // Derbent [ Russia , Dagestan Republic , Derbent, 42°04′N 48°17′E ] // cephalicus Mor. Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz ] // Syntypus <red label> // Lectotypus , Halictus confluens Morawitz , design. Proshchalykin et Astafurova, 2016 <red label>. Paralectotypes : 7 ♀ , Derbent // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // cephalicus Mor. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Syntypus <red label>. Current status. Halictus ( Seladonia ) cephalicus Morawitz, 1874 . Remark. Description of male: Blüthgen 1923: 235 , Figs 2a, 2b (as Halictus conjungens Blüthgen, 1921 , synonymized by Blüthgen 1926: 414 ). Distribution. Europe, Russia (south of European part, North Caucasus, Crimea), Caucasus, Turkey , Syria , Israel , Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan ( Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017b ).