Anthidium (Proanthidium) undulatum Dours, 1873

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC: Northern and eastern Mediterranean and east to Iran, Algeria (Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Local distribution fig. 14.6

Literature. Pérez (1911): Mount Lebanon, Beit Meri, 14.VI.1908, det. Pérez J., leg. Gadeau de Kerveille H.

Warncke (1980) assigned the material from Lebanon to the subspecies holozonicum (Mavromoustakis, 1939).

Material examined. Bekaa: Hadath, 1441 m, 7.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Jord Aarsal, 1975 m, 11.VII.2019, 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M.; Anjar, Guest house, 973 m, 23.VII.2019, 1♀, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; 1♀, det. Kasparek M., leg . Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine, 1800 m, 25.VI.2006, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Nemer N., coll. TCFNR; Tannourine El Tahta, Wadi Ain Al Raha, 1187 m, 29.VI.2017, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar , 1765 m, 28.VI.2017, 1♀, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar , 1765 m, 18.VII.2017, 1♀, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar , 1736 m, 11.VII.2018, 3♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M.; Harissa, Al Jawar , 1736 m, 18.VII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Hadath El Jebbeh, Road to Wadi Al Fouar , 1553 m, 22.VIII.2018, 1♂, det. Litman J., leg. Boustani M., Jabbour J.; Arz Tannourine, Trail 4, 1781 m, 27.VII.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M, leg. Boustani M.; Tannourine El Tahta, Mar Boutrous , 1207 m, 27.VI.2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Van Achter X., coll. XVA .

S. Lebanon: Saidoun, El Mrouj, 15.VI.2017, 1♀, det. Litman J., leg. Baghdadi A., coll. SOILS .

Flower records. Fabaceae: Ononis natrix, O. spinosa; Lamiaceae: Lavandula x intermedia, Stachys distans .

Müller (1996) reports a strong preference for Leguminosae for this polylectic species that we also observe here.