Hylaeus (Prosopis) signatus (Panzer 1798)

(Figs 3 h, 11c–d)

Vespa pratensis Geoffroy in Fourcroy 1785: 437, 3 (type locality: Paris, France), nec Miller 1759.

Sphex signata Panzer 1798: 53, pl. 2, Ƥ (type locality: Germany).

Mellinus bipunctatus Fabricius 1798: 265, Ƥ (type locality: “Halae Saxonum“, Germany).

? Philanthus bilineatus Gravenhorst 1807: 278, 3 (type locality: Germany).

Prosopis bipunctata: Eversmann 1852: 52 .

Prosopis albinasata Strand 1912: 30, 3 (type locality: Kapland, “locality may be spurious“ [Snelling 1985]). Synonymized by Snelling 1985: 5.

Prosopis pratensis var. nigrifacies Alfken 1913: 20, Ƥ (type locality: Bremen, Germany), nec Bramson 1879.

Prosopis berlandi Benoist 1943: 41 –42, 3 (type locality: Agadir, Morocco). Synonymized by Warncke 1972: 761.

Material examined. No material examined.

Distribution in Russia. European part (Osytshnjuk et al. 1978), Orenburg Prov. (Eversmann 1852). General distribution. North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia); nearly throughout Europe, in Sweden up to 59° north; Asia Minor, Azerbaijan.