Ectemnius continuus ( Fabricius, 1804 )

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 : 48

Ectemnius continuus ( Fabricius, 1804)

Distribution in Iran: Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Charmahal-o Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan ( Leclercq 1954, 1999), Fars ( Fallahzadeh et al. 2009; Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015), Golestan ( Leclercq 1954, 1999; de Beaumont 1957), Guilan (Radoszkowsky 1871; Leclercq 1993; Sakenin et al. 2011b), Hamadan, Ilam, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Khorasan-e Razavi, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh-va Boyerahmad, Kordestan, Lorestan ( Leclercq 1954, 1999), Markazi (Ebrahimi 2014; Leclercq 1954, 1999), Mazandaran ( Leclercq, 1954, 1993, 1999), North Khorasan, Qazvin ( Leclercq 1954, 1999), Semnan ( Leclercq 1954, 1999; de Beaumont 1957), South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ( Leclercq 1954, 1999).

General distribution: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela.

Remarks: Two subspecies Ectemnius continuus continuus ( Leclercq 1993; Atbaei et al. 2015; Rezaei & Fallahzadeh 2015) and Ectemnius continuus punctatus (Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau et Brullé, 1835) ( Leclercq 1993) have been recorded from Iran.