The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko Author Astafurova, Yulia V. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab., 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-7792 Author Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. Federal Scientific Centre for East Asian Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia text ZooKeys 2020 994 35 104 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.994.58441 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.994.58441 1313-2970-994-35 532128F58058479E82FE6C4B7C7A73FC 393B39D12EC55CC3A3C55FB4C1296D55 12. Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 11 Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876: 219 (key), 230, ♂. Type locality. 30 km SE Kozhatogai, Turkistan Province (Kazakhstan). Published (original) locality. Uzbekistan: steppe between Tashkent and Syrdarya River. Holotype. ♂, 18.[V.1871] // Step m.[ezhdu ] S.[yr ] d.[arei ] i T.[ashkentom ] [Kazakhstan, Turkistan Province, steppe between Syrdarya River and Tashkent, 30 km SE Kozhatogai, 41°47'N , 68°23'E ] // Halictus fucosus Mor., [N]345 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Halictus senilis Evers. v. fucosus Mor., ♂, P. Bluethgen det. // Holotypus <red label> [ZMMU]. Current status. Halictus (Argalictus) senilis (Eversmann, 1852) (synonymised by Bluethgen 1922 : 47). Remarks. The lectotype designation of Warncke (1982 : 148) is unnecessary as the species was described from a single male that was directly written about by Morawitz (1876 : 231). Distribution. North Africa, South and East Europe, Russia (south to Urals Mountains on the east), Caucasus, Turkey, Near East, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China ( Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017 ). Figure 11. Halictus fucosus Morawitz, 1876, holotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B metasoma, dorsal view C head, frontal view D mesosoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.