Anthidium (Anthidium) florentinum (Fabricius, 1775)

Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Zootaxa 4976 (1), pp. 1-146 : 66

Anthidium (Anthidium) florentinum (Fabricius, 1775)

Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC ( Ascher & Pickering 2021).

Literature. Klug (1832): Listed under Anthidium subspinosum from “ Syria ”, June. This material collected by Ehrenberg and Hemprich is in current Lebanese territory ( Baker 1997).

Mavromoustakis (1963): Listed under Anthidium florentinum subspinosum Klug, 1832

Reported as common near Bcharre and Kadisha River, no details given on date.

Material examined. Bekaa: Anjar, Guest house, 973 m, 23. VII .2019, 1♂, det. Kasparek M., leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU .

N. Lebanon: Tannourine El Fawka , Salon de l’église, 1244 m, 4.VII.2019, 2♀, leg. Boustani M., coll. MBOU ; 1♀, 1♂, leg. Gekière A.; 1♂, leg. Ghisbain G., all coll. UMONS .

Flower records. Lamiaceae : Lavandula x intermedia, Salvia cf hierosolymitana ; Rosaceae : Rubus sanctus .

Recorded flower visit from Lebanon by Mavromoustakis (1963) on Rubus ulmifolius anatolicus , and seems to have this preference for Rubus in Cyprus ( Mavromoustakis 1952) as well.