Anoplius (Arachnophroctonus) viaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sphex viatica Linnaeus, 1758: 570 . Lectotype (the figure in Frisch 1721: 2, pl. 1, fig. 13) “ Germany ”, designated by van der Vecht 1958: 47.

Material examined. (5) 1♀, 1♂, 4.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; (5) 11♂, 16, 18.VII.2012, VL, MP; (8) 1♂, 6.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; (11) 2♀, 5♂, 14, 15.VII.2012, VL, MP; (14) 3♂, 12.VII.2012, VL, MP; (15) 1♀, 1♂, 7.VII.2014, AL, MP, VL; (15) 11♂, 13.VII.2012, VL, MP [EATB] .

Distribution. Russia: European part (North-West, Centre, East, South, North Caucasus, Crimea), Ural, Western Siberia (Tyumen Prov., Omsk Prov., Tomsk Prov., Altai Terr.), Eastern Siberia (* Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Terr., Irkutsk Prov., Buryat Rep., Yakutsk Rep., Zabaikalskii Terr.), Far East (Amur Prov., Khabarovsk Terr., Primorskii Terr., Sakhalin). Widely distributed Palaearctic species from Western Europe and North Africa in the West to Japan in the East.

Remarks. This species is newly recorded from Khakassia.