Megachile (Chalicodoma) pyrenaica Lepeletier, 1841 *

Distribution: PALAEARCTIC: Southern Europe, Turkey, west of the Caspian Sea, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Israel (Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Material examined. N. Lebanon: Arz Bcharre, Reforestation Area, 1885 m, 12.V.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Bcharre, Daher El Adib , 2437 m, 8.VI.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; Arz Bcharre, Reforestation Area , 2296 m, 27.VI.2017, 2♀, leg. Boustani M.; Bcharre, Plateau Qornet Es Sawda , 2882 m, 12. VII .2018, 4♀, 1♂, leg. Boustani M.; 2661 m, 9. VIII .2018, 1♀, leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU .

Flower records. Fabaceae: Onobrychis cornuta; Lamiaceae: Stachys ehrenbergii .