Chelostoma (Chelostoma) lucens (Benoist, 1928)

Heriades lucens Benoist, 1928: 418 . Type material: Lectotype ♀, by designation of G. van der Zanden (unpublished), “ Asie mineure: Taurus ” (Turkey), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris.

Literature records. BULGARIA: Blagoewgrad: Sandanski (Ebmer 2009, as C. transversum). LEBANON: Mount Lebanon: Maaser Al Chouf (Boustani et al. 2021); North: SE Quemmamine (Boustani et al. 2021). TURKEY: Antalya, Diyarbakır, Mersin, Muğla (Ebmer 2009; Özbek 2011). The specimens of C. lucens observed by Ebmer (2009) on flowers of Legousia pentagonia ( Campanulaceae) on Samos (Greece) refer to C. (Gyrodromella) aegaeicum .

New records. BULGARIA: Blagoewgrad: Melnik, 4.6.1984, 1♀, 1♂ (leg. B. Karas); Chaskowo: 30 km SW Svilengrad, 41°43′N / 26°02′E, 550 m, 21.06.08, 1♀ (leg. M. Halada, Z. Halada). GREECE: Aegean Islands: Rhodes, Archangelos, 100 m, 8.5.2005, 1♀ (leg. A. Müller); Samos, Manolates 25.4.1977, 1♂ (leg. H. Teunissen). ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: Haifa District: Yagur, 32.74°N / 35.07°E, 24.4.2015, 1♀ (leg. G. Pisanty); Northern District: Yiftah, 30.3.2016, 1♂ (leg. O. Winberger). JORDAN: Ajloun: 10 km N Ajloun, 23.4.2007, 1♀, 2♂ (leg. C. Praz, C. Sedivy, A. Müller). SYRIA: Al-Quneitra: Golan Heights, Nahal Zawitan, 32.945°N / 35.689°E, 168 m, 23.4.2019, 1♀ (leg. A. Dorchin). TURKEY: Antalya: 15 km E Kumluca, 36°23.652′N / 30°24.201′E, 540 m, 28.5.2002, 1♀ (leg. B. Degen); Denizli: Pamukkale, 1.6.1966, 1♀ (leg. J. Schmidt); Isparta: Eğirdir, Kovada Gölu, 22.5.1988, 2♂ (leg. N. Mohr); Manisa: 35 km SSE Salıhlı, 38°20′N / 28°24′E, 900 m, 30.6.2006, 1♀ (leg. J. Halada); Mersin: Uzuncaburç, 30 km N Silifke, 28.5.1996, 3♀ (leg. M. Halada); Muğla: Bafa lake, 19.4.1996, 3♂ (leg. P. Hartmann).

Distribution. Bulgaria, Greece (Aegean Islands), Turkey, Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Jordan). C. lucens has not yet been reliably recorded in mainland Greece.

Pollen hosts. Oligolectic on Dipsacoideae (A. Müller personal observation), which is confirmed by A.W. Ebmer (personal communication), who observed many specimens of C. lucens exclusively visiting Scabiosa on Samos in spring 2014.

Nesting biology. Unknown.

Note. C. “lucens ” in Mavromoustakis (1951) and Varnava et al. (2020) is C. comosum Müller.