A new species of Lestica Billberg (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) from Turkey Author Can, İlyas Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey Author Gülmez, Yaşar 0000-0002-3488-396X Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey & yasar _ gulmez @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3488 - 396 X yasar_gulmez@yahoo.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-04-12 5125 4 429 436 journal article 56048 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.6 6d37d2a0-2889-4344-9388-63cfe4490eab 1175-5326 6450959 1E5CB3DD-84C3-4027-87A6-359FCD819F0E Lestica clypeata clypeata (Schreber, 1759) ( Fig. 5 ) Material examined: Giresun : Alucra , Mesudiye village , 40.319° N , 38.669° E , 1440 m , 2.VIII.2018 , ♂ ; Alucra , Gürbulak village , 40.290° N , 38.805° E , 1600 m , 7.VIII.2017 , 1 ♀ ; 11. VI .2018 , 1 ♀ ; Çamoluk , Hacıören vil- lage, 40.183° N , 38.821° E , 1410 m , 7.VIII.2017 , 1 ♀ ; Şebinkarahisar , Central district , 40.320° N , 38.435° E , 1200 m , 7.VIII.2017 , 1 ♂ ; 2.VII.2018 , 1 ♀ ; Gümüşhane : Şiran , Güreşköy village , 40.112° N , 38.950° E , 1190 m , 11.VIII.2016 , 3 ♀ , 2 ♂ ; 26.VII.2017 , 2 ♂ ; Kelkit , Çilhoroz pass, 40.159° N , 39.290° E , 1550 m , 26.VII.2017 , 1 ♀ ; Sivas : Akıncılar , Şenbağlar village , 40.060° N , 38.396° E , 1140 m , 18.VII.2016 , 1 ♀ ; 5. VI .2017 , 2 ♂ ; 1.VIII.2017 , 2 ♂ ; 2. VI .2018 , 2 ♀ ; Gölova , Çobanlı village , 40.015° N , 38.585° E , 1290 m , 18.VII.2016 , ♂ ; 24.VII.2016 , 1 ♀ ; 30.VIII.2016 , 1 ♀ , 3 ♂ ; 23. VI .2017 , 1 ♂ ; 2.VII.2017 , 1 ♀ ; 12.VIII.2017 , 11 ♀ , 2 ♂ ; Suşehri , Aşağısarıca vil- lage, 40.155° N , 38.147° E , 930 m , 2. VI .2018 , 3 ♀ ♀ ; Suşehri , Geminbeli pass, 39.990° N , 37.986° E , 2010 m , 18.VII.2017 , 2 ♂ , 17.VII.2018 , ♂ . Host plant: Euphorbia palustris L. Distribution in world: Western and Central Palaearctic region ( Pulawski 2022 ). Distribution in Turkey : Adana , Amasya , Ankara , Antalya , Artvin , Aydın , Balıkesir , Bilecik , Bingöl , Bolu , Bursa, Çanakkale , Elazığ , Erzincan , Erzurum , Giresun , Hatay , Iğdır , İçel, İstanbul , Kahramanmaraş , Kars , Kastamonu , Konya , Kütahya , Malatya , Samsun , Şanlıurfa , Sivas , Tekirdağ , Tokat , Tunceli , Van ( Ljubomirov & Yıldırım 2008 ; Yıldırım et al . 2016 ; Gülmez & Çubuk 2018 ; Kaplan & Yıldırım 2021 ).