Anthidium (Proanthidium) echinatum Klug 1832

Anthidium (Proanthidium) echinatum Klug, 1832 Figs 7, 8 Anthidium echinatum Klug, 1832. – Male, Egypt, holotype in Berlin (MFN). Anthidium rohlfsii Friese, 1897. – Male, Libya, synonymized by Alfken (1926). Holotype: MFN in Berlin (Friese 1897); not located there (Kasparek). Genetic Barcode ID. BOLD: AFC 6741, based on material from Egypt (Kasparek, unpubl.). Material examined. • 1 ♀; Cairo Governorate: Wadi Digla; “ 18-4. ”; H. Priesner leg. (CMK). • 1 ♀ 4 ♂; Cairo Governorate: Wadi Riched (Rishet) near Helwan; “ 14.4. ”; H. Priesner leg. (CMK). • 4 ♀ 1 ♂; New Valley Governorate: Charga (Kharga); date given as “ iii ” (March?); H. Priesner leg. (CMK). • 1 ♂; Matruh Governorate: Siwa Oasis, Lake Bahaa El Din; 23. 02. 2019; specimen used for DNA barcoding; M. Shebl, Soliman & Emsaed leg. (CMK). • 1 ♀ 1 ♂; Cairo Governorate: Wadi Riched; 1. 03. 1914; A. Andres leg. (SMF). Material (other sources). • Giza Governorate: Saqqara south of Cairo (Klug 1832). • Cairo Governorate: Ma’adi and Wadi Rashid, from February to April (MoA) (Storey 1916 a, 1916 b). • 1 ♀; Wadi Redid, south of Cairo; 27. 02. 1914 (AUCE; Elshaier 2022). • Cairo Governorate: Wadi Riched; 01. 03. 1914 (Alfken 1926). • Cairo Governorate: Maadi; Giza Governorate: Serapeum (Saqqara) (Monks 2019). • 1 ♂; New Valley Governorate: Kharga Oasis; 14. 02. 1934 (PPRI; Elshaier 2022). • 1 ♂; New Valley Governorate: Dakhla Oasis; 18. 03. 1934 (Elshaier 2022). • 14 ex.; Giza Governorate: Serapeum (Saqqara); 06. 03. 1949; D. Baker leg. (SEMC 2026). • 2 ex.; Cairo (?); Ministry of Agriculture Cairo; 30. 03. 1943; M. Moustafa leg. (SEMC 2026). • Fayyum Governorate: Kom Osheim, Fayyum Oasis (Salem and El-Azab 2017). Sources for identification. Key in Warncke (1980), photographs herein (Figs 7, 8). Taxonomy. Radoszkowsky (1876) redescribed the male of A. echinatum because he found that some characters were insufficiently described by Klug (1832). Alfken (1926) provided a description of both sexes. Pasteels (1969 a) placed A. echinatum in a distinct subgenus, Anthidium (Echinanthidium) Pasteels, 1969, which was later synonymized with Proanthidium by Warncke (1980). Michener and Griswold (1994) and Gonzalez and Griswold (2013) discussed the subgeneric placement of the species and treated it as Anthidium s. str. Distribution. Afra-arabian faunal element. Found in North Africa from Morocco in the west through Libya and Egypt to Israel (Ascher and Pickering 2026). Combey (2008) also reported it from Mauritania, based on material deposited in Pretoria, South Africa (SANC).