Prionyx kirbii ( Vander Linden 1827 )

Danilov, Yuriy N., 2012, The digger wasps of the genus Prionyx Vander Linden (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) of Russia and Central Asia, with a key to species, new synonymies, and lectotype designations, Zootaxa 3526, pp. 59-71 : 63

Prionyx kirbii ( Vander Linden 1827)

Ammophila kirbii Vander Linden 1827: 362 . Syntypes: Ƥ, 3, France and Spain: no specific localities (lost). Sphex albisectus Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau et Audinet-Serville 1828: 462. Lectotype, designated by Menke in Bohart & Menke 1976: 133: Ƥ, Italy: Piemonte: no specific locality (MNHN). Synonymized with Parasphex kirbii by F. Smith 1856: 267.

Prionyx kirbii: Bohart & Menke 1976: 133 ; Kazenas 1978: 44; 1998: 111; 2001: 84; 2002: 28; Pulawski 2012: 9.

Material examined: 73 Ƥ, 47 3 from Russia, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Morocco and Tunisia.

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Malta, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Volgograd, Astrakhan, Rostov regions and Altai Territory), Turkey, Israel, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Zaire, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, South Africa.