Anthidium (Anthidium) florentinum (Fabricius, 1775)

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC (Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Literature. Klug (1832): Listed under Anthidium subspinosum from “ Syria ”, June. This material collected by Ehrenberg and Hemprich is in current Lebanese territory (Baker 1997).

Mavromoustakis (1963): Listed under Anthidium florentinum subspinosum Klug, 1832

Reported as common near Bcharre and Kadisha River, no details given on date.

Material examined. Bekaa: Anjar, Guest house, 973 m, 23. VII .2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU .

N. Lebanon: Tannourine El Fawka, Salon de l’église, 1244 m, 4.VII.2019, 2♀, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU ; 1♀, 1♂, leg. Gekière A.; 1♂, leg. Ghisbain G., all coll. UMONS .

Flower records. Lamiaceae: Lavandula x intermedia, Salvia cf hierosolymitana; Rosaceae: Rubus sanctus .

Recorded flower visit from Lebanon by Mavromoustakis (1963) on Rubus ulmifolius anatolicus, and seems to have this preference for Rubus in Cyprus (Mavromoustakis 1952) as well.