Petrorossia hespera (Rossi, 1790)

Arabyat, Sahar, Katbeh-Bader, Ahmad & Greathead, David, 2004, The bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) of Jordan, Zootaxa 654, pp. 1-48 : 42

Petrorossia hespera (Rossi, 1790)

Material: 19 specimens: Al Badhyah 25.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Al Husson 19.VIII.2002 (1ɗ); Al Mukhaybah al Fawqa 31.VII.2002 (1ɗ); Al Mujib 3.V.1999 (1ɗ); Al Muwaqqar 16.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Ayn Aqraba 29.IV.2002 (2Ψ, 2ɗ); Ar Rumaymin 17.IV.1986 (1Ψ, 1ɗ); Ash Shajarah 22.VII.2002 (1ɗ); Ash Shawbak 7.VIII.2002 (1Ψ); As Salt 2.IX.2002 (1ɗ); Hummrit As Sahin 22.IX.2002 (1Ψ); Ma’in 5.VIII.2002 (2Ψ, 1ɗ); Westren Bayudah 26.VIII.2002 (1Ψ).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia­Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Is, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Gruzia, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

It appears to be common in the highlands and the Jordan Valley. It has been reared from the nests of several species of sphecid wasps (du Merle, 1975)

Petrorossia letho (Wiedemann, 1828)

Material: 15 specimens: Al Jubayhah 3.IX.2002 (1Ψ, 1ɗ); Ash Shumari 23.VII.2002 (6Ψ, 4ɗ) Retma raetam (Forssk) (Leguminosae); Al Mujib 24.IX.2002 (1ɗ); Wadi Shuqayq 24.IX.2002 (1Ψ, 1ɗ) on Verthemia iphionoides.

Distribution: Afrotropical: Benin, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan. Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Bosnia­Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, France, Iran, Italy, Libya, Macedonia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

This species was collected from white broom Retma raetam (Försk.) (Leguminosae).