Anthidium (Proanthidium) undulatum Dours, 1873

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 : 68

Anthidium (Proanthidium) undulatum Dours, 1873

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Northern and eastern Mediterranean and east to Iran, Algeria ( Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Local distribution fig. 14.6

Literature. Pérez (1911): Mount Lebanon, Beit Meri, 14.VI.1908, det. Pérez J., leg. Gadeau de Kerveille H.

Warncke (1980) assigned the material from Lebanon to the subspecies holozonicum (Mavromoustakis, 1939).

Material examined. Bekaa: Hadath, 1441 m, 7.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Jord Aarsal, 1975 m, 11.VII.2019, 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Anjar , Guest house, 973 m, 23.VII.2019, 1♀, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg . Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine, 1800 m, 25.VI.2006, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Nemer N., coll. TCFNR ; Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain Al Raha , 1187 m, 29.VI.2017, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa , Al Jawar , 1765 m, 28.VI.2017, 1♀, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa , Al Jawar , 1765 m, 18.VII.2017, 1♀, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa , Al Jawar , 1736 m, 11.VII.2018, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa , Al Jawar , 1736 m, 18.VII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Hadath El Jebbeh , Road to Wadi Al Fouar , 1553 m, 22.VIII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Arz Tannourine , Trail 4, 1781 m, 27.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta , Mar Boutrous , 1207 m, 27.VI.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU ; 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

S. Lebanon: Saidoun , El Mrouj, 15.VI.2017, 1♀, det. Litman J., leg. Baghdadi A., coll. SOILS .

Flower records. Fabaceae : Ononis natrix , O. spinosa ; Lamiaceae : Lavandula x intermedia, Stachys distans .

Müller (1996) reports a strong preference for Leguminosae for this polylectic species that we also observe here.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Local distribution maps of material examined and literature of 1 Protosmia monstrosa, 2 Anthidiellum strigatum, 3 Anthidium christianseni, 4 Anthidium loti, 5 Anthidium manicatum, 6 Anthidium undulatum, 7 Anthidium wuestneii, 8 Eoanthidium judaeense, 9 Icteranthidium grohmanni, 10 Rhodanthidium caturigense, 11 Rhodanthidium septemdentatum, 12 Megachile apicalis, 13 Megachile doriae, 14 Megachile manicata, 15 Megachile montenegrensis, 16 Megachile parietana.