Euzonitis Semenov, 1893

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February Selander Type Geographic, species 1991) distribution .. 18 Apalus spp. . sexmaculatus S Palaearctic Olivier region, 1789, from, by Macaronesia original designation (Madeira (and see

13 Canary Islands), Maghreb and Iberian Peninsula, to Central Asia (Turkestan) .

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23 References at Taxonomy. Escherich (1891b, 1897a key and catalogue); Semenov (1893b, 1900,]

Bath 1910 Bionomics); Iabloko. V- Lindberg Khnzoryan (1963 (1983); Prispinova); Bologna ((1987 1991 b a));. Bologna (1991a, 1994a).

of Pharmacology. Beauregard (1890).

University Notes This genus needs complete revision based on characters other than coloration.

[The genus does not occur in sub-saharan Africa. Although Borchmann (1942) by treated the Namibian maculicollis Borchmann as a Euzonitis, Kaszab (1954c) Downloaded that spur considered E the is. jacobsoni very galeae it wide a Zonitis are Semenov. only. slightly from Central modi ed Asia at the diVers apex somewhat and the external from congeners metatibial in

The undescribed larva of a species from Turkey, E. rubida Ménétriès, 1832 (obtained from eggs and adult Anthophora ), has characters very similar to those of Zonitis (Bologna, unpublished). A second species was recorded as a parasitoid on Anthophorida e ( Anthophora ) (Lindberg, 1963).