Podalonia hirsuta ( Scopoli, 1763 )

Jahantigh, Fatemeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Mokhtari, Azizollah & Ramroodi, Sara, 2017, Catalogue of Ampulicidae, Crabronidae and Sphecidae of Iran (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), Zootaxa 4307 (1), pp. 1-96 : 20

Podalonia hirsuta ( Scopoli, 1763)

Distribution in Iran: Alborz (de Beaumont 1957; Ebrahimi 1993, 2014), Ardabil (de Beaumont 1957), Charmahal-o Bakhtiari (Ebrahimi 2014), East Azerbaijan ( Ghazi-Soltani et al. 2010a, b; Dollfuss 2013b; Ebrahimi 2014), Golestan ( Dollfuss 2013b, 2015; Ebrahimi 2014), Guilan ( Ghahari et al. 2008; Ebrahimi 2014), Hamadan (Ebrahimi 2014), Isfahan (Samin et al. 2015), Khorasan-e Razavi (Ebrahimi 2014), Kohgiluyeh-va Boyerahmad ( Dollfuss 2013b, 2015), Lorestan (Ebrahimi 2014), Markazi ( Hadi et al. 2014), Mazandaran (de Beaumont 1957; Ebrahimi 2014), Qazvin ( Sakenin et al. 2011b), Sistan-o Baluchestan (Ebrahimi 2014), Tehran ( Ebrahimi 1993, 2014), West Azerbaijan, Zanjan (Ebrahimi 2014); no specific locality ( Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tibet, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Remarks: Two subspecies, Podalonia hirsuta mervensis ( Radoszkowski, 1887) ( Sakenin et al. 2011b; Ebrahimi 1993, 2014; Hadi et al. 2014) and Podalonia hirsuta hirsuta ( Ghahari et al. 2008) have been recorded from Iran.