Sphecodes rubripes Spinola, 1839

Wood, Thomas James, Cross, Ian & Baldock, David W., 2020, Updates to the bee fauna of Portugal with the description of three new Iberian Andrena species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4790 (2), pp. 201-228 : 218

Sphecodes rubripes Spinola, 1839

Distribution: South-west Europe, North Africa, Cyprus, and the Near East ( Astafurova et al. 2019).

Notes: Warncke (1992) considered S. rubripes to be a subspecies of Sphecodes albilabris (Fabricius, 1793) . However, it has several morphological and ecological differences ( Bogusch & Straka 2012; Cross 2017; Astafurova et al. 2019) and should be considered a valid species ( Bogusch & Straka 2014). In Portugal, S. rubripes is known only from the Algarve where it is a parasite of Eucera nigrilabris Lepeletier, 1841 ( Cross 2017) , whereas S. albilabris sensu stricto is found throughout the country.