Cerceris fischeri SPINOLA, 1839

Cerceris fischeri fischeri SPINOLA, 1838: EMPEY 1983: 171 (tax., type cat. Afr. reg.).

* Cerceris contigua n.sp.: WALKER 1871a: 28 (descr. ♂ ♀, Tadjoura).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: SCHLETTERER 1887: 467 (tax., original descr., Tadjoura), 489 (world cat.).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: ANDRÉ 1889: 30 * (cat.).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: ANDRÉ 1890: 325 (key, descr. ♂ ♀, Tadjura (Djibouti, not Egypt)).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: DE DALLA TORRE 1897: 456 (world cat.).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: INNES BEY 1911: 113 (Tadjoura, cat. Lord Collection).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: DE BEAUMONT 1951: 323 (? syn., type lost).

Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871: EMPEY 1983: 171 (syn., type lost, Tadjoura not mentioned).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.

Cerceris fischeri is known from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Ethiopia) and Palaearctic (e.g. Oman, Saudi Arabia) regions. The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in BOHART & MENKE (1976: 580). Cerceris contigua WALKER, 1871 is a junior homonym of Cerceris contigua (VILLERS, 1789) .