Panurgus (Panurgus) cavannae Gribodo, 1880

Literature. Friese (1901): Several specimens from Beirut, 21.IV– 5.V.

Notes. Synonymised with Panurgus siculus Morawitz, 1872 by Warncke (1972). Panurgus siculus has a distribution of southern Italy, Corsica, and Sardinia (Patiny 2012). Warncke (1972) treated both P. siculus and P. posticus as subspecies of P. dentipes Latreille, 1811 due to their morphological similarity. Additionally, the P. posticus material that Warncke described from Lebanon was also from Beirut, and so we suspect that it may be the same material that Friese called P. cavannae . Certainly, we consider the presence of a Corsico-Sardinian-Italian endemic in Lebanon highly unlikely.

Genus Halictus Latreille, 1804