Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar 1953

Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar, 1953 Hedychridium sculpturatum var. palestinense Balthasar, 1953:145. Syntypes ♂, ♀; Palestine: Jerusalem (Prague). Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959a:63. Unnecessary replacement name for H. palestinense Balthasar, 1953. Hedychridium palestinense: Rosa et al., 2013:6 (Qazvin, Markazi); Falahatpisheh et al., 2019:4 (Fars). Hedychridium maculisternum: Arens, 2011:316 (replacement name for Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959): Strumia & Fallahzadeh, 2015:17 (Fars); Strumia et al., 2016b:53 (Fars); Iranmanesh et al., 2017:297 (Kerman). Distribution. Iran (Fars, Kerman, Markazi, Qazvin). Armenia, Palestine (Balthasar, 1953); Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan (Linsenmaier, 1997). Remarks. The name Hedychridium palestinense Balthasar, 1953 is the valid name for this taxon (Arens, 2010). The replacement name Hedychridium maculisternum Arens, 2011 was given to replace the name of Hedychridium maculiventre Linsenmaier, 1959 proposed for a Balkan species, which is not present in Iran.