New distributional records of Celonites tauricus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) and new data on its behaviour at flowers
Journal: Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Year: 2022

New records of Celonites tauricus Kostylev, 1935 are reported from Chios, Rhodes, Samos (Greece), Dagestan (Russia), Georgia, and the main portion of Azerbaijan (previous records were made from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic only). Flower visits of imagines were observed at six species of Lamiaceae, four of them being recorded for the first time as forage plants of C. tauricus . The newly recorded Teucrium canum Fisch. &amp; C.A. Mey. and Ziziphora taurica M. Bieb. (both Lamiaceae) are princ