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 14. Halictus meridionalis Morawitz, 1874 ( Figs 14 a–e) Halictus meridionalis Morawitz, 1874: 170 , , . FIGURES 14a–e. Halictus meridionalis Morawitz, 1874 . Lectotype, female: a—habitus, lateral view; b—head, frontal view; c—metasoma, dorso-lateral view; d—mesosoma, dorsal view; e—labels. Type locality: Derbent, Dagestan Republic ( Russia ). Published (original) locality: Derbent. Lectotype : , designated by Proshchalykin & Astafurova 2016: 12 , Derbent [ Russia , Dagestan Republic , Der- bent, 42°04′N 48°17′E ], Becker [leg.] // Halictus meridionalis Mor. , , [!] [handwritten by F. Morawitz ] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [ Collection of F. Morawitz ] // Lectotypus , Halictus meridionalis Morawitz , , design. Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2016 <red label> // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000049 . Current status. Halictus ( Seladonia ) subauratus ssp. subauratus ( Rossi, 1792 ) (synonymized by Blüthgen 1922: 49 ). Distribution. Europe, Russia (European part, North Caucasus, Crimea, Urals, Western Siberia), North Africa, Caucasus, Turkey , Israel , Iran , Central Asia, Pakistan , Northwestern China , North India ( Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017b ).