A southern restricted species: Dorset to Kent and north to Suffolk. Abroad, found widely in the western Palaearctic from Britain and Spain to Iran and the Urals.
Not listed in Shirt (1987), but given as Notable B (now known as Nationally Scarce Nb) by Falk (1991).
Often found in open, broad-leaved woodland but also associated with coastal land slips, soft-rock cliffs and estuarine fore-shores.
Univoltine; early April to early October.
A solitary mining bee. Nests are dug in clayey soil, sometimes with a turret above the entrance.The cells are arranged along the sides of the burrow, often in a cluster without a surrounding chamber.
Will visit a wide range of flowers for nectar.
No Sphecodes cleptoparasites have been reported from L. puncticolle.
2009