Afranthidium (Mesanthidium) pusillum

Afranthidium (Mesanthidium) pusillum (Morawitz, 1894) Anthidium pusillum Morawitz, 1894. – Male, Uzbekistan. Lectotype and paralectotype in St. Petersburg (ZISP) (Ivlev et al. 2025 b). Mesanthidium pusillum (Morawitz, 1894). – Transferred to Mesanthidium by Popov (1950). Mesanthidium mochii Mavromoustakis, 1956. – Female, male, Syria. Holotype in coll. Mavromoustakis, Ministry of Agriculture, Nicosia, but not listed in catalogue (MoA 1989). Paratype in Madrid (MNCN-CSIC) (Mavromoustakis 1956). Genetic Barcode ID. BOLD: AEH 1961, based on material from Azerbaijan and Lebanon (Kasparek, unpubl.). Sources for identification. Included in the illustrated identification key by Kasparek (2022). Material (literature). • 1 ♀; Giza Governorate: Kafr Hakim, 30 June (Warncke 1980). Data lacking explicit source information. Inferred from locality and date, most likely collected by R. Mabrouk in 1932 (Ministry of Agriculture Cairo, PPDD). Distribution. Palaearctic faunal element. Widely distributed from Egypt across the Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria), Turkey, and the Caucasus region, extending into Central Asia (Warncke 1980; Ascher and Pickering 2026; Kasparek unpubl.). Egypt represents the westernmost known locality of the species.