Tachysphex pompiliformis (Panzer, 1805)

Rezaei, Shohreh, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Saghaei, Nazila & Sadeghi, Maryam, 2020, An annotated catalogue of the genus Tachysphex Kohl, 1883 of Iran (Hymenoptera Apoidea, Crabronidae), Zootaxa 4890 (1), pp. 67-82 : 71

Tachysphex pompiliformis (Panzer, 1805)

Distribution in Iran: Razavi Khorasan, Tehran ( Pulawski 1971; Ebrahimi 2000; 2005; 2014), Alborz ( Pulawski 1971; Ebrahimi 2000; 2014), Kermanshah ( Abd-Rabou et al. 2005), without exact locality ( Schmidt & Bitsch 2007), Mazandara, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiar ( Ghahari et al. 2009), Kurdistan ( Sakenin et al. 2010a), Semnan ( Sakenin et al. 2010b), Tehran ( Samin et al. 2010), Ardabil, East Azerbaijan ( Ebrahimi 2014), Fars ( Atbaei et al. 2015; Sadeghi et al. 2018).

General distribution: Nearctic ( Canada, USA); Palaearctic ( Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Libya, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan).

Remarks: This species was also found in Pakistan (as T. rufoniger Bingham, 1897 ), but only in the North West Province, and in India (as T. projectus Nurse, 1903 ), but only in Kashmir. Both areas are on the fringes of the Palaearctic region, and the species is not known from further East (in the territories that are unquestionably Oriental). Both mentioned species were synonymized with T. pompiliformis by Pulawski (1975).