Eucera (Eucera) cypria Alfken, 1933 * (fig. 22.2)

Distribution: EAST MEDITERRANEAN: Cyprus, East Aegean Island to Iran and Israel.

Local distribution fig. 15.15

Unpublished records. GBIF 2021, SEMC: Mount Lebanon: Monteverde, nr Mansourieh, 350 m, 28.IV.1996, 1♀, det. Baker D., leg. Roche C.G.

Material examined. Bekaa: Qaraoun, 792 m, 24. III .2013, 5♂, leg. Kasparek M., coll. OÖLM .

Mount Lebanon: Beit Meri, 19.IV.0000, 1♀, leg. Manassah R.; Fanar, 11.III.1965, 1♀, 2♂; Locality Unknown, 11.IV.1975, 2♀, 1♂., all coll. USEK ; Daychounieh, Nahr Beirut Climbing Site, 133 m, 3.IV.2017, 6♀, 5♂, leg. Boustani M. ; 27.IV.2017, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., all coll. MBOU; Falougha, 1478 m, 27.IV.2019, 2♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. PRAS .

N. Lebanon: Hadath El Jebbe, Wadi Al Fouar, 1553 m, 4.III.2018, 1♀, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU.Additional 23♀ and 21♂, from 18 records, collected between 24.III.2017 and 11.V.2019, from Tannourine El Tahta, Arz Tannourine, Fehta, and Hadath El Jebbe .

S. Lebanon: Hlaliyeh, 11.IV.1975, 1♂; Saidoun, El Mrouj, 26. III.2017, 1♀, leg. Baghdadi A.; Saidoun, Lavender Garden, 4. III.2018, 2♂, leg. Baghdadi A.; Saidoun, 5. III .2018, 1♂, leg. Baghdadi A.; 24. III .2019, 1♂, leg. Baghdadi A., all coll. SOILS.

Flower records. Boraginaceae: Anchusa hybrida, Solenanthus stamineus; Fabaceae: Vicia narbonensis, Vicia sericocarpa; Lamiaceae: Lavandula x intermedia.