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 21. Halictus melanarius Morawitz, 1876 Figure 17 Halictus melanarius Morawitz, 1876: 241, ♂. Type locality. Shakhimardan (Uzbekistan). Published (original) locality. Near Shakhimardan. Holotype. ♂, 9.[VII.1871] // Shagimardan [Shakhimardan in the Uzbek enclave in the territory of Kyrgyzstan, Alai Ridge; 39°58'N , 71°47'E ] // Halictus melanarius Mor., [N]364 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lasioglossum fallax (Mor.) syn: melanarium (Mor.) det. A.W. Ebmer 1979 // Holotypus <red label> [ZMMU]. Current status. Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) fallax ssp. melanarium (Morawitz, 1876) (subspecies status according to Ebmer 1998 : 382). Remarks. Description of female: Ebmer 1980 : 493, Figs 12 and 13 , as Lasioglossum melan Ebmer, 1980 (synonymised by Ebmer 1998 : 382). The lectotype designations by Ebmer (1980 : 495) and by Warncke (1982 : 91) were unnecessary as the species was described from a single male that was directly written about by Morawitz (1876 : 241). Distribution. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia (Hovd) ( Pesenko 2006b ). Figure 17. Halictus melanarius Morawitz, 1876, holotype, male A view habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal C genitalia, dorsal view D mesosoma, dorsal view E metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm ( A, B, D, E ), 0.5 mm ( C ).