Notes on the Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) of Gabon Author D, Chalybion Author P, Isodontia Author V, Prionyx Author K, Sceliphron text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2021 53 1 101 110 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.13153511 0253-116X 13153511 Sceliphron spirifex (LINNAEUS , 1758) Pelopoeus spirifer (!) ( LINNAEUS , 1758): FAIRMAIRE 1858: 265 ( Gabon without exact locality). Pelopoeus spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : COSTA 1866: 24 (Gaban = Gabon without further data). Sceliphron spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : KOHL 1894: 342 ( Gabon without exact locality). Pelopoeus spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : KIRBY 1896: 265 ( Gabon without exact locality (only Ogooué river). Sceliphron ( Pelopoeus ) spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : KOHL 1918: 5 (fig. 9), 7 (taxonomy), 8 (taxonomy), 9 (figs. 12, 13), 12 (biogeography), 15 (fig. 20), 16 (key ♀ ), 19 (key ♀ ), 25 (key ♁), 86 (taxonomy, description ♁ ♀ , Gabon without exact locality), 87 (fig. 46), 139 (biogeography, world catalogue), 144 (biology), 145 (biology), 146 (biology), 147 (biology), 148 (biology), 149 (biology), 150 (biology), 162 (biology), 163 (fig. 65: larva), 167 (biology), pl. 2 (figs. 11 (?), 13). Sceliphron ( Sceliphron ) spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : LECLERCQ 1955: 60 (taxonomy, "Chûtes de Samlia, riv. N’Gamie" = Chûtes de Samba (Rivière Ngounié ) near Sindara), 63 (footnote: Libreville). Sceliphron ( Sceliphron ) spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : VECHT & BREUGEL 1968: 231 (map), 232 (key), 234 (fig. 20), 235 (fig. 21), 236 (fig. 22), 216 (taxonomy, localities see KOHL (1918) and LECLERCQ (1955)) , 240 (fig. 23). Sceliphron spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : LECLERCQ 1969: 1048 (taxonomy, Mbila – Gabon , not Republic of Congo ). Sceliphron ( Sceliphron ) spirifex ( LINNAEUS , 1758) : BOHART & MENKE 1976: 105 (world catalogue). M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Moyen-Ogooué : Ndjolé, Hotel Kedyann, 1♀ , 04.02.2019 , leg. M. Madl. D i s t r i b u t i o n: Estuaire : Libreville, no exact locality ( FAIRMAIRE 1858 , COSTA 1866 , KOHL 1894 , 1918 ) – Moyen-Ogooué : Ndjolé – Ngounié : Chûtes de Samba (Rivière Ngounié ) near Sindara, Mbila – no exact locality ( KIRBY 1896 ). Sceliphron spirifex , which is widely distributed in the Afrotropical and southern Palaearctic regions, is also known from Cameroon and the Republic of Congo .