This species closely resembles several other small Sphecodes species and is best identified from characters of the male genitalia.

BWARS has not yet produced an account for this species.

Read about recent records of this species in Britain here.

We plan to complete the process of producing accounts for all British and Irish species eventually. Meanwhile, on this page you can find at least a provisional distribution map, any images BWARS has procured for the species and a list of known synonyms (names previously applied to this species). The work of mapping aculeate Hymenoptera, plus describing their life histories, is the major activity that BWARS… Read more

This is a very similar bee to the common Sphecodes geoffrellus (Kirby) and confusion, particularly in the female, most probably occurs.

Else & Edwards (in press) will cover this species. It has also been covered in several other works, including Banaszak & Romasenko (2001) and Amiet et al. (2004).