Anthrax aethiops (Fabricius, 1781)

Material: Three specimens: Ayn esh Shallaleh 24.VI.2002 (1ɗ); Hummrit As Sahin 22.IV.2002 (1ɗ); Khudayr 30.VIII.1981 (1ɗ) (Al Yarmouk University).

Distribution: Palaearctic: Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia­Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Gruzia, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kyrgyz Republic, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Austen (1937) mentioned that a male hatched from a nest of Osmia pallicornis Friese (Megachilidae) in Egypt and it has also been reared from other Megachilidae (du Merle, 1975).