An annotated list of ten species of digger wasps from ten genera is given. The lectotype of Plenoculus murgabensis (Gussakovskij, 1928) is designated; this species is newly recorded from Kalmykia (Russia) and Uzbekistan.
An annotated list of 95 species-group names of bees from 17 genera of families Melittidae и Apidae (except Bombus and Apis) described by 22 authors from Crimea, North Caucasus, European part of Russia and Ural in 1848-2017 is given. Of them 47 species are valid. For each taxon the data about the types and their depository, current taxonomic status and distribution are given. Lectotypes are designated for 24 nominal taxa: Anthophora
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