Eucera (Eucera) nigrescens Pérez, 1879

Distribution: PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe and east to Russia, eastern Mediterranean and further east to Turkmenistan (Ascher & Pickering 2021).

GBIF 2021, SEMC: Beirut, Jardin des Jésuites, 1♂, determiner unknown, leg. Kullenberg B.

Mount Lebanon, Monteverde, nr. Mansourieh, 350 m, 27.III.1994, 1♂, det. Baker D. ; 22.II.1996, 1♂, det. Baker D.; 18.III.1996, 1♂, determiner unknown, all leg. Roche C.G.

Notes: Eucera nigrescens Pérez is replaced in the east Mediterranean area by the similar E. cypria Alfken. The occurrence of E. nigrescens is very unlikely.