Osmia (Pyrosmia) nana Morawitz, 1874

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe, Caucasus, Levant, Turkestan, possibly Algeria (Müller 2021).

Unpublished records. GBIF 2021, SEMC:

Mount Lebanon, Monteverde nr Mansourieh, 350 m, 4.IV.1994, 1♂, determiner unspecified, leg. Roche C.G. ; 5.IV.1996, 1♀, det. Baker D., leg. Roche C.G.

Literature. Benoist (1934): Under the name Osmia tetrodonta Benoist, 1934

The paper provides the description of the species that has later been synonymised with O. nana (Zanden, 1985) . Locality mentioned as “Asie Mineure, Betmeri” [Mount Lebanon, Beit Meri], 1♂, leg. Pérez J.

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Horch Ehden, Nabeh Jouit, 1346 m, 24.IV.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta, Mar Boutrous, 1207 m, 5.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., Rasmont P., all coll. MBOU .