Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) edessae Ebmer, 1974

Ghisbain et al. (2023) reported L. edessae from Cyprus based on Ebmer (1995). However, closer reading of Ebmer (1995) shows that only a specimen of Lasioglossum with morphological characteristics intermediate between Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) edessae and L. (Sphecodogastra) sociorum was reported.However, in his subsequent work on the fauna of Crete and Cyprus (Ebmer 2014), neither L. sociorum nor L. edessae are mentioned. For this reason, we exclude Lasioglossum edessae from the European fauna.

Distribution. Turkey (Ebmer 1995).