Tachysphex albocinctus (Lucas, 1849)

Tachysphex argyrius Gussakovskij 1933:280, ♀, ³ (³ = Tachysphex grandissimus). Lectotype: ♀, Iran: mountains south of Bampur, designated by Pulawski 1971:432. Synonymized with Tachysphex albocinctus peculator by Pulawski 1971: 431.

Distribution in Iran: Sistan & Baluchestan (Gussakovskij 1933; Pulawski 1971; 2007).

General distribution: Afrotropical (Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Oriental (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,); Palaearctic (Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen).