This is a Channel Islands species not found in mainland Britain.
It is a mainly Western Palaearctic species known from central and southern Europe, including Sicily and Crete. Also, from North Africa, including the Canary Islands, Morocco and Tunisia, and with limited information for the Arabian peninsula (United Arab Emirates).
The Channel Islands are, for a number of reasons, excluded from the geographical coverage of the British Red Data book (Shirt, 1987) and the subsequent review (Falk, 1991).
In continental Europe, a species of warm, open, sandy habitats, including heathland and sandpits (Bogusch & Straka, 2012).
A Channel Islands flight period cannot be defined, due to the lack of data.
A cleptoparasite of mining bees of the genus Lasioglossum. Lasioglossum semilucens (Alfken), L. sexstrigatum (Schenck) and L. punctatissimum (Schenck) are among species considered as putative hosts (Bogusch & Straka, 2012).
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No data available.
2019