Tachysphex consocius Kohl, 1892

Material examined: 3³, Iran, Fars, Larestan (Hormood Abbasi), 27°32’06”N, 54°59’02”E, 506m a. s. l., 3.VIII.2019 - 4.IX.2019, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; 4³, same data, 4-24.IX.2019; 2³, same data, 25.IX.2019 - 4.X.2019; 3³, Larestan (Karmostaj), 27°31’55”N, 54°26’01”E, 781m a. s. l., 28.VIII.2019 - 24.IX.2019, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; 3³, same data, 10-20.IV.2018; 1♀, Shiraz (Bustan-e Jannat), 29°36’52”N, 52°28’09”E, 1584m a. s. l., 10- 20.IV.2018, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; 1♀, same data, 17-23.VII.2018; 1³, same data, 21- 27.8.2018; 1³, same data, 11- 21. V.2019; 1³, Dasht-e Arzhan, 29°39’39.047”N, 51°59’3.439”E, 2152m a. s. l., 29. VI.2019 -VIII.7.2019, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; 1³, Kaftarak, 29°33’34N, 52°41’43”E, 1495m a. s. l., 15-21. V.2017, leg. Sh. Rezaei ; Zafar Abad, 29°24’06”N, 52°35’01”E, 1514m a. s. l., 1-7.X.2019, leg. Sh. Rezaei.

Distribution in Iran: East Azerbaijan (Pulawski 1971; 2007; Samin et al. 2015), Mazanderan (Pulawski 2007), without exact locality (Schmidt & Bitsch 2007); Fars (Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015; Sadeghi et al. 2018, current study).

General distribution: Afrotropical (Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Oriental (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka); Palaearctic (Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen).