Parnopes grandior ( Pallas, 1771 )

Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 3864 (1), pp. 1-67 : 50

73. Parnopes grandior ( Pallas, 1771)

Chrysis grandior Pallas 1771: 474 . Holotype ♂; Russia (ZMB) (examined).

Parnopes grandior: Wengris 1962: 9 , Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 153.

Parnopes grandior grandior: Rosa & Soon 2012 .

Distribution. Lithuania.—Westpalearctic: southern and central Europe, Southwest Asia ( Linsenmaier 1997).

Remarks. The species has been recorded from five localities in southern Lithuania (Žvėrynas, Gerdašiai, 1 km E Girdžiūnai, 1 km W Girdžiūnai and Perloja) ( Orlovskytė et al. 2010). The species is very rare in Lithuania, although its host, Bembix rostrata , is still relatively widely distributed. P. grandior has been also found close to the border of Fennoscandia in Pargolovo, near St. Petersburg, in July 1879 ( Semenov 1912: 179). The specimen is deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

Erroneously reported species