Tachysphex mediterraneus Kohl, 1883

Material examined: 1³, Iran, Fars Province, Larestan (Hormood Abbasi), 27°32’06”N, 54°59’02“E, 506m a. s. l., 29. V.2015 - 29. VI.2015, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; 1³, same data, 3.VIII.2019 - 4.IX.2019; 1♀, same data, 4-24.IX.2019; 2³, same data, 25.IX.2019 - 4.X.2019; 2³, 2♀, Larestan (Karmostaj), 27°31’55”N, 54°26’01”E, 781m a. s. l., 28.VIII.2019 - 24.IX.2019, leg. Sh. Rezaei.

Distribution in Iran: Mazandaran (Pulawski 1971; 2007), without exact locality (Schmidt & Bitsch 2007), Fars (current study).

General distribution: Afrotropical (Angola, Botswana, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Oriental (India, Sri Lanka,); Palaearctic (Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan).