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 10. Halictus frater Pesenko, 1984 ( Figs 10 a–f) Halictus ( Prohalictus ) frater Pesenko, 1984b: 463 (key), 469, ♂ . Type locality: Tuv Aimag ( Mongolia ). FIGURES 9a–e. Halictus flavocallosus Morawitz, 1894 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—metasoma, dorsal view; c—head, frontal view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels. Published (original) locality: corresponds to data on the holotype label (see below). Holotype : ♂ , МонголиЯ, Центральный аймак, 70 км ЮЗ Уланбатора [ Mongolia , Tuv Aimag , 70 km SW Ulaanbaatar , 47°37’N 106°00’E ], песчанаЯ степь [sand steppe], 30.VII.[1]969, М. КоЗлов [ M. Kozlov leg.] // Ho- lotypus Halictus frater Pesenko , ♂ <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000160. Current status. Halictus ( Protohalictus ) rubicundus ( Christ, 1791 ) (synonymized by Ebmer 1988: 552 ). Distribution. Europe, North Africa, Russia , Caucasus, Kazakhstan , Mongolia , China , Korean Peninsula, Japan , North America ( Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017b ).