Epeolus laevifrons Bischoff, 1930

Bogusch, Petr, 2021, The cuckoo bees of the genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from the Middle East and North Africa with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84, pp. 45-68 : 45

Epeolus laevifrons Bischoff, 1930

Published records.

North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, and Turkey. It was recorded usually in mountains (High Atlas Mts.). The holotype from “Laussitz”, which means the region on border between Germany and Poland looks very similar to the specimens from Morocco and probably was wrongly labelled ( Bogusch and Hadrava 2018). Lhomme et al. (2020) published an additional record from Morocco (Marrakech-Safi).

Material examined.

Morocco: Oukaimeden , 8.VII.1975, (6 ♀), J. Gusenleitner leg., (2 ♀), A. W. Ebmer; 11.VII.1975, (1 ♂, 1 ♀), J. Gusenleitner [all P. Bogusch det.] (OLML) ; idem, 24.VII.1985, (1 ♀), K. Guichard [P. Bogusch det.] (KUBC) ; idem, 12.V.2015, (1 ♂, 1 ♀), V. Soon [P. Bogusch det.] (UTME) ; idem, 25.-27.VI.1987, (4 ♂, 22 ♀), M. Schwarz ; idem, 25.VI.1988, (1 ♀), J. Schmidt [all P. Bogusch det.] (OLML) .