Fieber (1861a:) originally described this species from Turkey and Syria. Wagner (1953o) indicated that he was not able to locate any Fieber specimens from Turkey or Syria, and selected a specimen from an unspecified locality as lectotype. Péricart (2002a) indicated that this designation seemed a little arbitrary, but since this specimen was from the Fieber collection, he let it stand. Records from the former USSR are erroneous (Derzhansky, 1994).