Eoanthidium (Eoanthidium) insulare Morawitz, 1873

Syn.: Eoanthidium (Eoanthidium) insulare persicolum (Mavromoustakis, 1937)

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Scattered records in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Levant, and east to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (Ascher & Pickering 2021, Kasparek unpublished).

Material from the SEMC and OOLL collections below re-examined by Kasparek M.

Material Examined. Mount Lebanon: Ain El Azar [Ain El Arar], 25.V.1953, 1♀, det. Warncke K., leg. Mavromoustakis G.A., coll. OOLL ; Monteverde nr. Mansourieh, 350 m, 21.V.1995, 1♂; 25.VI.1995, 1♀; 16.VI.1996, 1♂, all det. Baker D., leg. Roche C.G., coll. SEMC ; Souk El Ghareb, Balamand University, 839 m, 23.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

N. Lebanon: Tannourine Al Tahta, Wadi Ain El Raha, 1036 m, 2. VIII .2017, 1♀, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU .

Flower record. Caprifoliaceae: Scabiosa argentea .