Philanthus triangulum ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Jahantigh, Fatemeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Mokhtari, Azizollah & Ramroodi, Sara, 2017, Catalogue of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae and Sphecidae of Iran (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), Zootaxa 4307 (1), pp. 1-96 : 82

Philanthus triangulum ( Fabricius, 1775)

Distribution in Iran: Alborz, Ardabil (Ebrahimi 2014), East Azerbaijan ( Ebrahimi 2005, 2014; Ghazi-Soltani et al. 2010a, b, c; Sakenin et al. 2011b), Fars ( Ebrahimi 2005, 2014; Fallahzadeh et al. 2009; Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015), Golestan ( Ebrahimi 2005), Guilan ( Morice 1921; Ebrahimi 2005, 2014), Hormozgan (Ebrahimi 2014), Isfahan ( Ebrahimi 2005), Kermanshah (Samin et al. 2015), Lorestan (Samin & Bagriacik 2015), Markazi (Ebrahimi 2014), Mazandaran (de Beaumont 1957; Ebrahimi 2005), Qazvin (de Beaumont 1957), South Khorasan (de Beaumont 1970), Tehran, West Azerbaijan ( Ebrahimi 2005); no specific locality ( Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Libya, Malagasy, Malta, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Zaire.

Remarks: The subspecies Philanthus triangulum triangulum has been recorded from Iran ( Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015).