Anthidium (Anthidium) auritum Klug 1832

Anthidium (Anthidium) auritum Klug, 1832 Anthidium auritum Klug, 1832. – Male, Egypt, holotype in Berlin (MFN). Not female as indicated by Warncke (1980). Anthidium fischeri Spinola, 1838. – Male, Egypt, synonymized by Dalla Torre (1896). Lectotype and paralectotype in Turin (MRSN), assigned by Schwarz and Gusenleitner (2003). Anthidium rufomaculatum Friese, 1899. – Female and male, Palestine, synonymized by Alfken (1928, 1933). Genetic Barcode ID. BOLD: ACL 6988, based on material from Israel and Morocco (Kasparek, unpubl.). Material examined. No material from Egypt examined. Material (other sources). • Giza Governorate: Saqqarah; 1821 or 1823; Ch. G. Ehrenberg leg.; type of A. auritum (Klug 1832). • Egypt without detailed location (Spinola 1838). • Listed as A. fischeri in the catalogue of the London museum (NHMUK) by Smith (1854). • Cairo (Cairo Governorate) and Khanka (Qalyubiyya Governorate) in the Nile Delta region (Storey 1916 a, 1916 b). Sources for identification. Included in the identification key by Warncke (1980). Distribution. Mediterranean faunal element with affinities to the Afro-Arabian region. The distribution ranges from Morocco in the west through Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya to Egypt, and further east to Israel and Palestine (Warncke 1980; Ascher and Pickering 2026; Kasparek unpubl.). In Egypt, the species is currently known only from historical records dating to the 19 th and early 20 th centuries.