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Leucospis sardoa Costa, 1884 : 35, 57, $. LECTOTYPE Q (here designated), Italy: Sardinia, 



Oristano (IZU, Naples) [examined]. 

 Leucospis sardoa var. minor Costa, 1884 : 35, 57, $. Holotype $, Italy: Sardinia, Fonni 



(IZU, Naples) [examined]. Syn. n. 



With all probability, apart from Rossius' description mentioning the maculate 

 frons, the only reference, with a nice figure, on which Illiger actually based his 

 L. intermedia, is Panzer's L. dorsigera, female, all the other references probably 

 repeating only the two (see Illiger, 1807 : 130). I could not, however, trace the 

 original material of Rossius, nor that of Panzer, which seems to be lost. Also there 

 cannot be any original material of Illiger, who simply described what he read in 

 Rossius' description and saw in Panzer's figure. In any case it is quite certain 

 that he meant the present species. 



L. aculeata. I selected the lectotype from two syntypes in the MNHU, Berlin. 

 The name was correctly put in synonymy with L. intermedia by Schletterer (1890). 



L. frenata. The lectotype selected from three syntypic females and one male 

 preserved in the MNHU, Berlin; another syntype (possibly two; the second not 

 labelled and in very bad condition) in the Westwood collection in UM, Oxford. 

 The lectotype is the same specimen on the basis of the study of which L. frenata 

 was synonymized with intermedia by Boucek (1959 : 443). 



L. hoplophora. No type-material could be traced (it was probably lost), but 

 the description leaves no doubt that it was the same species as L. intermedia. 

 Forster actually compared his species with intermedia, but believed it different, 

 on colour characters of the mesoscutum and hind coxae, which are known as variable 

 nowadays. Omitted by Schletterer (1890). 



L. sardoa and var. minor. Lectotype chosen from two original specimens of 

 sardoa. The variety minor is a small female of only 6-2 mm in length, of the 

 same species. L. sardoa was synonymized with intermedia already by Schletterer 

 (1890 : 196, 199), but the variety was not mentioned. The latter was misquoted 

 by Dalla Torre (1898 : 412) as coming from 'Scandin.' (Scandinavia). 



This is a well know species, redescribed and commented on by Schletterer (1890 : 

 195-200), later on for example by Boucek (1959 : 437, 443) and Nikolskaya 

 (i960 : 202-204). The yellow colour may turn slightly orange in some North 

 African specimens (e.g. Benghasi). 



Biology. The only host record of the bee Osmia emarginata Lepeletier goes 

 back to Giraud (1858 : 441) but was repeated by several subsequent authors. 



Distribution. Southern Europe (including S. France, S. Switzerland, Austria, 

 S. Czechoslovakia, Moldavian S.S.R., S. Ukraine), Algeria, Lybia, Egypt, Israel 

 (Boucek, 1956 : 250), Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Transcaucasia, Turkmenian S.S.R., 

 Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan (Nikolskaya, i960 : 204), N. Afghanistan. 



Material examined. 



Type data given in synonymy. 



Since the species is well known and often mentioned in faunistic papers only 

 the following more interesting localities are noted. Lybia: Benghasi (MCSN, 



