Eumenes (Eumenes) papillarius (Christ, 1791)

Sphex papillaria Christ, 1791: 325 (type locality: Germany).

Eumenes bipunctis de Saussure, 1852: 33, ♀ (type locality: “L’Europe?”), synonymized by Gusenleitner 1972: 88.

Eumenes bimaculatus André, 1884: 644, ♀ (type locality: “Europe méridionale”).

Eumenes mediterraneus aemilianus Guiglia, 1951: 28, ♀ (type locality: “Spilamberto (Emilia)” [Italy]), synonymized by van Achterberg et al. 2023: 136.

Eumenes papillarius monticola Blüthgen, 1956: 2, ♂ (type locality: “Sp.: Sierra Nevada, Val del Inferno” [Spain]), synonymized by Castro 1997: 4.

Material examined (new records). KYRGYZSTAN: Kirgizskiy Range, left slope of Kara-Balta River, 4 km below Abla River mouth, 1900–1950 m, 12.VIII.2000, 1 ♀, leg. V. Dubatolov [ISEN] .

Distribution. Western, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Europe, Russia (European part, Urals, Altai),Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, * Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia.

Remarks. Taxonomic status of the subspecies E. papillarius balticus Blüthgen, 1938, described from Latvia, and E. papillarius rubricornis Gusenleitner, 1972, described from Lebanon, is unclear and requires further verification.