Megachile (Chalicodoma) pyrenaica Lepeletier, 1841

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 : 77

Megachile (Chalicodoma) pyrenaica Lepeletier, 1841 *

Distribution: PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe, Turkey, west of the Caspian Sea, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Israel ( Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Arz Bcharre, Reforestation Area , 1885 m, 12.V.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Bcharre , Daher El Adib , 2437 m, 8.VI.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Arz Bcharre , Reforestation Area , 2296 m, 27.VI.2017, 2♀, leg. Boustani M.; Bcharre , Plateau Qornet Es Sawda , 2882 m, 12. VII .2018, 4♀, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; 2661 m, 9. VIII .2018, 1♀, leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU .

Flower records. Fabaceae : Onobrychis cornuta ; Lamiaceae : Stachys ehrenbergii .