Notes on Palaearctic species of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with new records from North Africa and Middle East Author Madl, M. Author Schwarz, M. text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2014 2014-12-19 46 2 1569 1580 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5311305 0253-116X 5311305 Leucospis bifasciata KLUG , 1812 Leucospis bifasciata KLUG, 1814 : MASI 1949: 91 (tax., Israel ). Leucospis bifasciata KLUG, 1814 : BOUČEK 1959: 436 (key), 439 (figs 13-21), 440 (tax., Israel (locality see fig. 17)). Leucospis bifasciata KLUG, 1814 : BOUČEK 1974: 102 (key), 115 (fig. 175), 140 (tax.), 142 (tax.), 146 (tax., biol., Israel ), 158 (key). Leucospis bifasciata KLUG, 1814 : BAUR & AMIET 2000: 367 (key, figs 5a’, b’), 381 (tax., fig. 12: tax., biol., Israel , Jordan , Syria ), 382 (fig. 12: tax.), 383 (fig. 13: tax.), 385 (fig. 14: tax.). Leucospis bifasciata KLUG, 1814 : LOTFALIZADEH & FAKHRZADEH 2012: 51 (tax., Iran ), 52 (figs 1, 5: map). * Leucospis gibba KLUG, 1814 : BOUČEK 1956: 251 (tax., Israel ). D i s t r i b u t i o n: Albania , Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria , Croatia (mainland, Hvar, Rab), Cyprus , France (mainland), Greece (mainland, Crete , Rhodes), Iran , Israel , Italy (mainland, Sardinia , Sicily ), Jordan , Kazakhstan , Montenegro , Russia , Spain (mainland), Syria , Tajikistan , Turkey , Turkmenistan , Ukraine and Uzbekistan . The material housed in the Biologiezentrum was published by BAUR & AMIET (2000). The doubtful record Sarepta (today Sarafand) from Lebanon in BAUR & AMIET (2000: 381) is a geographical error. In fact, it is the former German village Sarepta (today part of Wolgograd ) in Russia .