Anthidium (Anthidium) septemspinosum (Lepeletier, 1841)

Anthidium (Anthidium) septemspinosum (Lepeletier, 1841) View in CoL – Belg. sp. nov.

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: This large Anthidium species (13-16 mm) can easily be distinguished from the other species in its genus by the entirely black legs. Females have no yellow mask on their head. Males have, like A. florentinum (Fabricius, 1775) , spines on the sides of tergites 5 and 6 and three on tergite 7.

DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE: This species has a very large distribution, reaching from Spain all the way to eastern China and even Japan. There are barely any records from northwestern Europe. It occurs, northwards to the Netherlands ( ZEEGERS, 2019), Germany and France ( SCHEUCHL & WILLNER, 2016). The species has not been observed in the United Kingdom ( ELSE & EDWARDS, 2018) and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( HERRERA MESÍAS & WEIGAND, 2021).

EU RED LIST STATUS: Data deficient (DD) ( NIETO et al., 2014)

ORIGIN OF RECORDS:

- BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION. Schaerbeek ; 1♀; 3.vii.2020; leg. B. Pasau; det. B. Pasau, J. D’Haeseleer - Fig. 9 H View Fig . 1 View Fig ♂; 24.viii.2021; leg./det. B. Pasau. 1♂; 25.viii.2021; leg./det. B. Pasau. 1♂; 23.vii.2022; leg./det. B. Pasau. 1♀ 1♂; 29.vii.2022; leg. M. Gendry, M. Cuypers; det. M. Cuypers, J. D’Haeseleer.

- LIMBURG PROVINCE. Genk ; 1♂; 22.vii.2020; leg./det. K. Janssen.

COMMENTS:

- The first observation of this species in the Netherlands dates from 2019 ( ZEEGERS, 2019).