Sphex funerarius Gussakovskij, 1934

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 : 29

Sphex funerarius Gussakovskij, 1934

Distribution in Iran: Alborz ( Ebrahimi 1993, 2014), Ardabil, East Azerbaijan (Ebrahimi 2014), Fars ( Fallahzadeh et al. 2009), Golestan (Ebrahimi 2014), Guilan (de Beaumont 1970), Hamadan, Kordestan ( Ebrahimi 1993, 2014), South Khorasan ( Gussakovskij 1933), Tehran (Ebrahimi 2014); no specific locality ( Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).

General distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Remarks: This species was recorded as Sphex maxillosus Fabricius, 1793 ( Gussakovskij 1933; de Beaumont 1970; Esmaili & Rastegar 1974; Ebrahimi 1993).