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 18. Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 14 Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 249, ♀. Type locality. Samarkand (Uzbekistan). Published (original) locality. Uzbekistan: Samarkand; Tajikistan: Peti. Lectotype (designated here). ♀, 5.[IV.1869] // Samarkand [Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 39°39'N , 66°57'E ] // Halictus limbellus Mor., [N]377 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus limbellus Mor., Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU]. Paralectotypes (3 ♀). 1 ♀, 5.[IV.1869] // Samarkand [Samarkand] // [N]377 // Typus <red label> [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, <golden circle> // 5.[IV.1869] // Samarkand [Samarkand] // Halictus limbellus F. Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, Samarkand [Samarkand] // k.[ollektsiya ] F . Moravitsa [Collection of F. Morawitz] // limbellus Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Halictus limbellus Mor., Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP]. Current status. Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) limbellum (Morawitz, 1876). Remarks. Description of male. Bluethgen 1930 : 763. The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982 : 69) is invalid because he labelled no female of the two females from Samarkand deposited in ZMMU. Distribution. Central and eastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (North Caucasus), Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China (Gansu) ( Pesenko 2007 , Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017 , Murao et al. 2017 ). Figure 14. Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm ( A ), 0.5 mm ( B-D ).