Spintharina versicolor (Spinola, 1808)

Boustani, Mira & Rosa, Paolo, 2022, Survey of cuckoo wasps of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with description of four new species, Zootaxa 5104 (1), pp. 1-39 : 32-33

Spintharina versicolor (Spinola, 1808)

Chrysis versicolor Spinola, 1808: 241 . Lectotype ♀, designated by Rosa & Xu 2015: 48 ; Italy: Liguria (Turin).

Chrysis (Chrysis) versicolor: Linsenmaier 1959: 102 ( Lebanon, without locality).

Distribution. From Western Europe to southern Russia, the Caucasus, and Iran ( Rosa et al. 2019).

Remarks. Linsenmaier (1959) reported Lebanon (without locality details) in the distribution of this species. However, during a recent check of the specimens in his collection we observed that they were incorrectly labelled as (1) “ Libanon Mt. Troodos 5500 ft 30.vi.37 / Mavromoustakis leg.” and (2) “ Libanon Mt. Troodos 6400 ft 6.48 / Mavromoustakis leg.”. The Trodoos Mountain range is located in the center of Cyprus and not in Lebanon. However, Spintharina versicolor is a relatively common species distributed from Turkey to Iran and its presence is expected in Lebanon as well.