Epeolus fallax Morawitz, 1872

Bogusch, Petr, 2021, The cuckoo bees of the genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from the Middle East and North Africa with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84, pp. 45-68 : 45

Epeolus fallax Morawitz, 1872

Epeolus fallax Synonyms (detailed in Bogusch and Hadrava (2018)): Epeolus giannellii Gribodo, 1894, E. speculifer Pérez, 1895.

Published records.

Southern and Central Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain ( Bogusch and Hadrava 2018). The same authors supposed this species to be endemic in Europe. Alfken (1914) reported this species from Algeria, however without any details. Species E. gianelli Gribodo, 1894, which was synonymised with this species, was described from Algeria ( Bogusch and Hadrava 2018). Lhomme et al. (2020) published records from Morocco ( Fès-Meknès; Marrakech-Safi).

Material examined.

Algeria: locality, date and collector unknown, (1 ♂) (OLML); Boghari, (1 ♂), collector unknown [P. Bogusch det.] (OLML) . Tunisia: Jendouba, 16.V.1973, (1 ♀), J. Gusenleitner; idem, 11.VII.1979, (1 ♂), A. W. Ebmer [P. Bogusch det.] (OLML); Tunis, date unknown, (1 ♀), E. Graeffe [D. B. Baker and M. S. Engel det.] (KUBC) .