Anthidium (Gulanthidium) rotundum ( Warncke, 1980 )

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 67

Anthidium (Gulanthidium) rotundum ( Warncke, 1980)

Distribution: EAST MEDITERRANEAN: Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon ( Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Species described by Warncke (1980) from Iran, with paratypes from the Mavromoustakis material collected in Lebanon. According to Warncke the taxon is incorrectly assigned to A. anguliventre by Mavromoustakis and Pasteels .

Literature. Mavromoustakis (1963): The records listed under Anthidium anguliventre Morawitz, 1888 refer to this species (see under Warncke 1980).

Warncke (1980): N. Lebanon, Bcharre, 1.VII.1960, 1♀, 1♂; 27.VI.1960, 1♀; 2.VII.1960, 4♀; 3.VII.1960, 3♂; Kadisha , 21.VI.1960, 1♀; 27.VI.1960, 1♂; 22.VI.1960, 1♀; leg. Mavromoustakis G.A., det. Warncke K.

Material examined. Mount Lebanon: Barouk, Shouf Biosphere Reserve, 1692 m, 2. VII .2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X.; 1382 m, 3. VII .2019, 1♀, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X.; 1716 m, 4. VII .2019, 2♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X.; Laqlouq, 1660 m, 6. VIII .2019, 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., all coll. XVA .

Flower record. Asteraceae : Centaurea sp.