Anthophora (Pyganthophora) aestivalis (Panzer, 1801) * (fig. 23.4–5)

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe and scattered in North Africa (Rasmont 2014b).

Local distribution fig. 16.7

GBIF 2021, SEMC: sudl. v. Trip (could be referring to South of Tripoli), III, 1♀, determiner unknown .

Material examined. Common.

Bekaa: AUB Farm [Haush Sneid], 15.IV.1961, 1♀, leg. Hajj R. ; AUB Farm [Haush Sneid], 8.V.1964, 1♀, leg. Rashid ; AUB Farm [Haush Sneid], 17.V.1964, 1♂, leg. Shaikh ; AUB Farm [Haush Sneid], IV.1979, 1♀, leg. Haidar , all coll. AUB; Passage Akoura-Hadath, 1820 m, 7.VII.2019, 2♀, leg. Ghisbain G. , coll. UMONS; Passage Akoura- Hadath, 1766 m, 7.VII.2019, 1♀ , leg. Van Achter X., coll . XVA.

Mount Lebanon: Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Gate, 1769 m, 16.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Shouf Biosphere Reserve, Barouk-Maaser dirt road, 1769 m, 16.V.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU ; Shouf Biosphere Reserve, 1912 m, 5.VII.2019, 1♀, leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

N. Lebanon: Donnieh, bei Quemmamine, 1600 m, 23.V.2012, 4♂, leg. Kasparek M. , coll. MKAS; Jairoun, 1042 m, 29.V.2012, 1♂, leg. Kasparek M ; Horch Ehden, 1567 m, 19.VI.2016, 1♀, leg. Boustani M. ; Arz Tannourine, Reserve Outskirts, 1766 m, 6.V.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M. , all coll. MBOU. Additional 121♀ and 50♂ from 53 records, collected between 12.V.2017 and 12.VII.2019, from Arz Bcharre, Hadath El Jebbeh, Arz Tannourine, Qanat, Horch Ehden, and Bcharre.

Flower records. Asparagaceae: Bellevalia cf trifoliata, Bellevalia flexuosa; Boraginaceae: Anchusa italica, Cynoglossum nebrodense, Echium italicum, Solenanthus stamineus; Fabaceae: Astragalus emarginatus, Onobrychis cornuta, Ononis natrix, Medicago sp., Vicia canescens, Vicia tenuifolia, Vicia villosa; Lamiaceae: Nepeta curviflora, Phlomis cf brachyodon, Salvia fruticosa, Salvia multicaulis, Stachys ehrenbergii; Papaveraceae: Glaucium leiocarpum; Plantaginaceae: Anarrhinum orientale .