Icteranthidium grohmanni Spinola 1838

Icteranthidium grohmanni Spinola, 1838 Anthidium grohmanni Spinola, 1838. – Female, male. Italy: Sicily. Lectotype and paralectotype designated by Schwarz and Gusenleitner (2003) in Turin (MRSN). Anthidium rubiginosum Lepeletier, 1841. – Male, Spain. Type probably in Paris (MNHN). Anthidium latreillii Lepeletier, 1841. – Female, male, SW France. Type probably in Paris (MNHN). [amended as A. latreillei] Anthidium comptum Lepeletier, 1841. – Female, Algeria. Type probably in Paris (MNHN). Anthidium numidum Lepeletier, 1841. – Female, male, Algeria. Type probably in Paris (MNHN). 7. (?) Anthidium klugii Lucas, 1849. – Female, Algeria. Sometimes mis-spelled as “ kluge. ” Type probably in Paris (MNHN). Friese (1898 b) interpreted the taxon as a possible synonym of A. rubiginosum, Alfken (1940) suspected it to be a species of Stelis, and Warncke (1980) treated the taxon as a synonym of I. grohmanni. Genetic Barcode ID. BOLD: AEH 0395, based on multiple specimens from various countries, including Algeria and Morocco as North African countries (Kasparek et al. 2026). Material (literature). • Friese (1898 b) mentions that there are “ various specimens [of Anthidium latreillei] from southern Europe and Egypt in the Berlin Museum. ” • Storey (1916 a, 1916 b) examined material in the collection of the Ministry of Agriculture Cairo (PPDD), collected at Maadi, Cairo Governorate, in April, which he assigned to “ Anthidium (?) latreillei, Lep. ”. Alfken (1933), in his overview of the bee fauna of Egypt, did not mention this species. Probably based on Friese (1898 b), Warncke (1980) and subsequent authors listed Egypt among the countries in which I. grohmanni occurs. Sources for identification. Key in Warncke (1980), key with drawings and photographs in Kasparek (2022). Distribution. Warncke (1980) and Kasparek (2022) described the distribution as circum-Mediterranean. For North Africa, Shebl et al. (2021) listed Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt, and for the Levant, Syria and Lebanon. The species also occurs farther east, such as in Iran and the Caucasus (Nadimi et al. 2014; Fateryga et al. 2020).